Unit 4 Gilded Age Quiz

Question 1

Railroad Improvements

Answer 1

1. Double rails were put in place
2. Iron rails are replaces with steel rails
3. Wooden bridges are replaces with iron and steel
4. Coal replaces wood for the fuel of the trains

Question 2

Invented the air brake. Replaces air brakes

Answer 2

George Westinghouse

Question 3

George Pullman

Answer 3

Created the first sleeping car

Question 4

6 Transcontinental routes

Answer 4

Trunk Lines

Question 5

Sailing ships are replaces by

Answer 5

Steel hulled freighters and ocean liners

Question 6

These new ships carried what

Answer 6

Immigrants and cargo

Question 7

Urban Transportation Improvements

Answer 7

1. Trolley
2. Elevator
3. Subway
4. Metro/elevated railroad

Question 8

Samuel Morse

Answer 8

Invented the telegraph

Question 9

Cyrus W. Field

Answer 9

Made the transatlantic telegraph cable

Question 10

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 10

Invented the Telephone and American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T)

Question 11

New sources of power

Answer 11

Coal and wood burned to make steam 17 hundreds

Oil and electricity are made 19th hundreds

Question 12

Edwin L. Drake

Answer 12

Drilled the first oil well in Titusville

Question 13

Steel is made up of

Answer 13

Iron, Coal, and Limestone

Question 14

Specialty store

Answer 14

Sold a single type of product

Question 15

Department Store

Answer 15

sold many goods under one roof (Wanamakers and Marshal Field)

Question 16

Chain Store

Answer 16

stores with many branches (Woolworths)

Question 17

Mail Store

Answer 17

Mail and order system. Sear, and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward