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Carnegie
John
Rockefeller
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2. Before Andrew Carnegie, most bridges were made from:
plastic
rubber
wood

3. c. wood

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

5. b. iron

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

7. a. Brooklyn Bridge

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

9. c. entrepreneur

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

11. True

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

13. a. Titusville, PA

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

15. True

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

17. b. Standard Oil Company

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

19. a. monopoly

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

21. False *do you know what is was refined to?

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

23. b. petroleum

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

25. c. refinery

26. This word means “to show disapproval”
criticize
reprimand
capital

27. a. criticize

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

29. c. slaughtered

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

31. b. conservation

32. Who began the steel industry?

33. Andrew Carnegie

34. Alexander Graham Bell is known for what invention?

35. The telephone

36. What was Thomas Edison’s nickname?

37. “The Wizard of Menlo Park”

38. George Eastman simplified the _________.

39. Kodak camera

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

41. a. Cornelius Vanderbilt

42. Who started the first oil company?

43. John D. Rockefeller

44. The automobile assembly line was created by _______.

45. Henry Ford

46. This man was known for the lightbulb and the phonograph.

47. Thomas Edison

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

49. The elevator

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

51. “The Empire Builder”