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Chapter 6 The Industrial Age
Who invented the typewriter?
Christopher Sholes
Who was the first to successfully use a steam
engine to remove oil from beneath the earth’s
surface?
Edwin L. Drake
Who ran the American Railway union and later ran for president several times
as a socialist?
Eugene Debs
Who was the Scottish immigrant who made
fortune in steel and donated most of his profits?
Andrew Carnegie
Who organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to
fight for better working conditions?
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Who created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while
serving as head of the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Who perfected the incandescent light bulb,
created an electrical power system, and
organized power plants?
Thomas Alva Edison
Who developed a cheap and effective
manufacturing process for making
steel?
Henry Bessemer
A wealth of which natural resources were a major
factor of the nation’s industrial boom?
Iron oreCoalOil
Water
What lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant metal is
produced from removing carbon from
iron?
steel
What business bought the most
steel?
Railroad companies for the rails
What percentage of women made up the
nation’s clerical workforce in 1910?
40 percent
Because of the popularity of the
automobile, entrepreneurs were
prompted to transform more oil into what?
gasoline
Because of the importance of railroads for western settlement, what did the government give to the
railroad companies?
Land grants
Which two groups of immigrants did
railroad companies employ?
ChineseIrish
Under railroad time, how many time zones was the
United States divided into?
four
What were various measures enacted
by the states to regulate the
railroads known as?
Granger Laws
What controlled a quarter of the
nation’s railroads by the end of the 19th
century?
Financial companies (Trusts)
What workers were involved in the Great Strike of
1877?
Railroad workers
Who became a magnate of the oil
industry?
John D. Rockefeller
The End
