class notes 1-3

Question 1

passed by congress during the civil war, but unrelated to the war. Becomes signifigant because of the after effects. It granted 120 acres of federal land and all that had to be paid was the legal fees and promise to improve the land within one year, had to be a private landowner-goal was to get as many people to settle the west as possible

Answer 1

Homestead Act-1862

Question 2

take top soil, cut it into bricks and build dirt houses

Answer 2

Sod houses

Question 3

• 1st major government department-1st service oriented department, not strategically related to government

Answer 3

Department of agriculture

Question 4

turned over federal land to states per representative in congress, then sold by the state to fund education

Answer 4

Morril Act

Question 5

established county agents whose job was to study soil/climate in the county

Answer 5

Smith-lever act

Question 6

barbed wire

Answer 6

Joseph Glidden

Question 7

made fencing available without massive use of wood, served its purpose as a barrier

Answer 7

barbed wire

Question 8

greatest marksman/shooter to ever live

Answer 8

Annie Oakley

Question 9

What aids in industrialization

Answer 9

Natural resources
	Large labor force
	Railroads/transportation
	Technology (applied science)
	Chrisitan ethic
	Political system encouraged    laissez faire

Question 10

invents the telephone in 1876, founded American Telegraph and Telephone company

Answer 10

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 11

Gospel of wealth-their business opportunity was in and of itself a ministry

Answer 11

Andrew Carnegie

Question 12

-(Christian) operated by the Golden Rule

Answer 12

J.C. Penny

Question 13

1st communication organization in the world

Answer 13

Western Union

Question 14

professional inventor, the means of being able to record sound, invents lightbulb, phonograph

Answer 14

Thomas Edison

Question 15

year of the Lightbulb by Edison

Answer 15

1879

Question 16

established 1st research/development lab at Menlo Park

Answer 16

Edison

Question 17

Designs modern electrical grid, and direct current

Answer 17

Edison

Question 18

Greatest American inventor in history

Answer 18

Edison

Question 19

competes with Edison

Answer 19

George Westinghouse

Question 20

goes to work for Westinghouse, discovers alternating current

Answer 20

Tesla

Question 21

the black Edison, invents the circuit breaker

Answer 21

Granville T Woods

Question 22

invents the assembly line

Answer 22

Henry Ford

Question 23

developed a process for converting iron

Answer 23

Bessemer/Kelly

Question 24

buys a steel business and sells it to J.P. Morgan and merges it to become U.S. Steel

Answer 24

Carnegie