Ch 19

Question 0

After consolidation, a few powerful individuals known as blank control of the nation’s railroads traffic

Answer 0

Railroad barons

Question 1

The practice of combining separate companies

Answer 1

Consolidation

Question 2

New Yorker blank one of the first railroad barons made a fortune by consolidating with several companies his railroad entire stretch from blank to blank

Answer 2

Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York City to the Great Lakes

Question 3

Who built the Great Northern line between blank and blank state

Answer 3

James J Hill and between Minnesota and Washington state

Question 4

James J Hill built the blank

Answer 4

Great northern line

Question 5

Collis p Huntington and Leland Stanford founded central Pacific which connected blank to blank

Answer 5

California to Utah

Question 6

Collis P Huntington and Lelands Stan Ford founded the blank

Answer 6

Central Pacific

Question 7

What were some materials that d

Answer 7

Iron ore, coal, and timber

Question 8

As the railroad companies like 4 feet 8.5 inches is the width of railroad tracks

Answer 8

Standard gauge

Question 9

Who devised airbrakes that improve the system for stopping trains

Answer 9

George Westinghouse

Question 10

Who made it easier for railroad workers to link cars

Answer 10

Eli H janney

Question 11

Who enabled the railroad to ship me and other perishable goods over long distances

Answer 11

The gustavus swift

Question 12

Who developed the pool man sleeping car a luxury railroad car with seats got converted into beds for overnight journeys

Answer 12

George m Pullman

Question 13

Lord railroad secret discount called blank to their biggest customer

Answer 13

Rebates

Question 14

Who managed to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 14

Cyrus Field

Question 15

Who developed the telephone

Answer 15

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 16

Hello invented the small box camera

Answer 16

George Eastman

Question 17

We developed a vacuum cleaner

Answer 17

John Thurman

Question 18

Who what do people call Thomas Edison

Answer 18

The wizard of Menlo park

Question 19

What did Thomas Edison invent

Answer 19

The lightbulb

Question 20

Who develop and improve the wire for the lightbulb enjoying Thomas Edison’s company

Answer 20

Louis Howard latimer

Question 21

Who made rail road improvements and electric incubator

Answer 21

Granville woods

Question 22

Who invented mechanism or mechanical device for oiling machines

Answer 22

Elijah McCoy

Question 23

Another African American inventor develop the shoemaking machine that performed many steps previously done by hand

Answer 23

Jane E matzeliger

Question 24

Created the model T

Answer 24

Henry Ford

Question 25

Henry Ford also pioneered a new less expensive way to manufacture cars the blank

Answer 25

Assembly-line

Question 26

The assembly line revolutionized other industries as well it enabled manufacturers to produce large quantities of goods more quickly this blank of good decreased manufacturing costs so products could be sold more cheaply

Answer 26

Mass production

Question 27

During periods of strong economic growth a shareholder earns a blank, cash payment from corporations profit on the stock here she owns

Answer 27

Dividend

Question 28

In a blank each worker performs an assignment production task again and again

Answer 28

Assembly-line

Question 29

In the plant one large railroad companies bought smaller companies to add to their companies or the large companies drove the smoke out of business

Answer 29

Consolidation

Question 30

In the 1800s skilled workers formed blank to represent workers in certain crafts

Answer 30

Trade unions

Question 31

In order to drive it competition out of business JD Rockefeller formed blank a group of companies managed by the same board of directors

Answer 31

Trust

Question 32

1908 Henry Ford introduced the blank, which was made in great quantities by assembly lines

Answer 32

Model t