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Chapter 6 a new industrial age test review

Chapter 6 a new industrial age test review. Section 1. What did edwin L. Drake do?. He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near titusville , PA. Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel?. Henry bessemer. Who invented the typewriter?.

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Chapter 6 a new industrial age test review

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  1. Chapter 6 a new industrial age test review

  2. Section 1

  3. What did edwin L. Drake do?

  4. He successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil near titusville, PA.

  5. Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel?

  6. Henry bessemer

  7. Who invented the typewriter?

  8. Christopher sholes

  9. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, NJanddeveloped an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation?

  10. thomasalvaedison

  11. Who invented the telephone?

  12. Alexander graham bell

  13. What were three major factors that contributed to the immense technological boom that took place in the United States after the Civil War?

  14. 1. abundant natural resources2. an explosion of inventions3. a rapidly growing urban population

  15. Section 2

  16. COMPLETED IN 1869, WHAT LINKED THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COASTS?

  17. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD

  18. WHAT industrialist’S company produced standard railroad cars and elegant sleeping carS?

  19. George M. Pullman

  20. What construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad used it to fraudulently skim off railroad profits for themselves?

  21. Credit Mobilier

  22. In which supreme court case did the states win the right to regulate railroads for the benefits of farmers and consumers?

  23. Munn v. Illinois

  24. What act established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities and establish a five-member interstate commission (icc) for that purpose?

  25. Interstate commerce act

  26. What reasons did average Americans of the late 1800s have to approve of the railroad companies?

  27. Laying thousands of miles of trackproviding quick, comfortable travelefficiently moving goods across vast regions of the nationthe standardization of time made daily life more convenient

  28. What reasons did average Americans of the late 1800s have to disapprove of the railroad companies?

  29. Standardization of time seemed an abuse of the railroads’ power and an intrusion on their livesAverage Americans probably didn’t appreciate how railroad companies treated their workers, discriminated against farmers and drove them into debtengaged in political corruption and the stealing of large sums of money.

  30. The end be sure to study!check out mrs. Knorr’s web page for this powerpoint

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