Andrew Carnegie John Rockefeller Vocab Inventors 1 Inventors 2 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

Before Andrew Carnegie, most bridges were made from: plastic rubber wood

c. wood

William Kelly found a way to turn _________ into steel. stones iron wood

b. iron

What was the longest suspension bridge in the world in 1883? Brooklyn Bridge Tacony Palmyra Bridge Golden Gate Bridge

a. Brooklyn Bridge

businessman manager entrepreneur Carnegie was considered to be an __________ because he started and organized original businesses businessman manager entrepreneur

c. entrepreneur

True or False? Carnegie gave away more than $350 million in his lifetime.

True

The first oil well was found in: Titusville, PA Pittsburgh, PA c. Philadelphia, PA

a. Titusville, PA

True or False? Rockefeller was not interested in drilling for oil; he’d rather refine it.

True

What was the name of Rockefeller’s oil company? Rockefeller Oil Company Standard Oil Company Titusville Oil Company

b. Standard Oil Company

A ___________ is a company that has little competition. monopoly liability refinery

a. monopoly

True or False? Oil was refined into gasoline for lighting lamps.

False *do you know what is was refined to?

What is a liquid that can be made into fuel? water petroleum silver

b. petroleum

factory monopoly refinery A ________ is a place where a good is made pure and made into other products. factory monopoly refinery

c. refinery

This word means “to show disapproval” criticize reprimand capital

a. criticize

Cattle and hogs were _________ for meats and by-products. raised kept as pets slaughtered

c. slaughtered

pollution conservation environmental What is the act of protecting or limiting the use of natural resources? pollution conservation environmental

b. conservation

Who began the steel industry?

Andrew Carnegie

Alexander Graham Bell is known for what invention?

The telephone

What was Thomas Edison’s nickname?

“The Wizard of Menlo Park”

George Eastman simplified the _________.

Kodak camera

The New York Central Railroad was started by: Cornelius Vanderbilt James J. Hill

a. Cornelius Vanderbilt

Who started the first oil company?

John D. Rockefeller

The automobile assembly line was created by _______.

Henry Ford

This man was known for the lightbulb and the phonograph.

Thomas Edison

We couldn’t go up 30 floors in a skyscraper easily without this invention from Elisha Otis.

The elevator

James J. Hill became known as _____________ after developing the Northern Railway System.

“The Empire Builder”