2. Who invented the typewriter?

3. Christopher Sholes

4. Who was the first to successfully use a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth’s surface?

5. Edwin L. Drake

6. Who ran the American Railway union and later ran for president several times as a socialist?

7. Eugene Debs

8. Who was the Scottish immigrant who made fortune in steel and donated most of his profits?

9. Andrew Carnegie

10. Who organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to fight for better working conditions?

11. Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

12. Who created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company?

13. John D. Rockefeller

14. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants?

15. Thomas Alva Edison

16. Who developed a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel?

17. Henry Bessemer

18. A wealth of which natural resources were a major factor of the nation’s industrial boom?

19. Iron ore Coal Oil Water

20. What lighter, more flexible, and rust- resistant metal is produced from removing carbon from iron?

21. steel

22. What business bought the most steel?

23. Railroad companies for the rails

24. What percentage of women made up the nation’s clerical workforce in 1910?

25. 40 percent

26. Because of the popularity of the automobile, entrepreneurs were prompted to transform more oil into what?

27. gasoline

28. Because of the importance of railroads for western settlement, what did the government give to the railroad companies?

29. Land grants

30. Which two groups of immigrants did railroad companies employ?

31. Chinese Irish

32. Under railroad time, how many time zones was the United States divided into?

33. four

34. What were various measures enacted by the states to regulate the railroads known as?

35. Granger Laws

36. What controlled a quarter of the nation’s railroads by the end of the 19 th century?

37. Financial companies (Trusts)

38. What workers were involved in the Great Strike of 1877?

39. Railroad workers

40. Who became a magnate of the oil industry?

41. John D. Rockefeller

43. The End