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| Railroad barons were created because the industry | consolidated. |
| Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who took Edison's work a step further by developing transformers? | George Westinghouse |
| Who pioneered the assembly line? | Henry Ford |
| What led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry? | new drilling technology |
| Who was the philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide? | Andrew Carnegie |
| Child-labor laws were passed for children working where? | factories. |
| What was the bloody clash in Chicago called that caused anti labor feelings to grow? | Haymarket Riot. |
| Which inventor's most important invention was the electric lightbulb? | Thomas Edison |
| What was the major difference between the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor? | the American Federation of Labor only accepted white skilled men |
| What is the combining of companies called? | mergers. |
| What did a group of national trade unions form In 1881? | American Federation of Labor. |
| Who invented the railroad sleeping car? | George M. Pullman. |
| What is the practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called? | consolidation. |
| What did the fast-growing national rail system encourage the expansion of? | economy. |
| In 1866 a transatlantic ____________________ cable connected the United States with Europe. | telegraph |
| Construction of ____________________ increased the demand for iron, steel, coal, timber, and | railroads |
| The industrial growth of the late 1800s created thousands of new ____________________ for American workers | jobs |
| During the late 1800s, the government granted more than 400,000 ____________________ for new inventions | patents |
| The ____________________ process made it possible to produce steel at a cheaper rate. | Bessemer |
| The telephone and the ____________________ greatly improved communication over a distance and further unified the nation | telegraph |
| Crowded and dangerous urban factories were known as ____________________. | sweatshops |
| One way a company could raise capital was by selling ____________________ in its business. | stock shares |
| By forming a ____________________, or group of companies managed by the same board of directors, Rockefeller was able to create a monopoly in the oil industry | trust |
| Carnegie's steel company became powerful through ____________________ integration, buying coal and iron mines, railroads, and other companies to control all parts of the steel-making process. | vertical |
