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Chapter 6 Section 1
The Expansion of Industry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| in the 1920s a huge industrial boom began, what several factors caused it? | a wealth of natural resources, government support for businesses, and a growing population that could supply cheap labor and markets for new products |
| This person successfully used a steam engine to drill for oil in Pennsylvania, making the use of oil for lamps (as kerosene) practical | Edwin L. Drake |
| Iron was a dense metal, but it was soft and rusted easily. Who invented the process of injecting air into molten metal to remove carbon impurities and make steel? What is this process called? | Henry Bessemer (British) and William Kelly (American Ironmaker) |
| Railroads became a use of steel as well as what two mens farm machines and this mans invention of barbed wire? | John Deere and Mccormick made steel farm machines and Joseph Glidden invented barbed wire? |
| the Brooklyn Bridge was completed in 1883, it spanned 1595 feet over over the East River in New York, its steel cable were supported by weight bearing structures that were higher than any architecture of the time EXCEPT | The Great Pyramids of Egypt |
| William Le Baron Jenney created the first what? | skyscraper with a steel frame, proving the sky wasnt even the limit for what americans could acheive! |
| These two men were the fathers of electricity. What did each of them do? | Thomas Alva Edison invented the incandescent lightbulb and invented a system of producing and distributing electricity. George Westinghouse helped make electricity safer and less expensive |
| What are a few things electricity powered in the 1890's? | fans, printing presses, machines, cheap and efficient streetcars |
| Electricity was available everywhere so now factories could be places anywhere, not just near rivers. What did this and other electrically powered things cause? | efficiency, expansion, economical (it was cheap) |
| These two men invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson |
| He invented the typewriter | Christopher Stoles |
| Women made up 5% of office workers in 1870. however this rose to ____% by 1910. | 40% |
| Mass Production required more machines than workers, this worried people that human workers were losing ________ | worth |
| What was the Industrial Age between 1868 and 1901 called? | The Gilded Age |
| What are the three main things needed in order for a country to industrialize? | population, capita (money), natural resources |
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