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3. Who stuck oil first in Pennsylvania? Edwin Drake

4. Who improved the light bulb? Edison

5. Who invented the telephone? Alexander G. Bell

6. Who made U.S. Steel into a rich company and became one of America’s wealthiest men? Andrew Carnegie

7. supply and demand What does laissez-faire rely on to regulate prices and wages?

8. Why did people round up longhorns for their ranches? They were tough and could take the weather.

9. What term refers to an organization that does not produce anything for itself? holding company

10. What term refers to an organization that manages properties for others? trust

11. What company formed the first trust? Standard Oil

12. Why was wheat suitable for growing on the Great Plains? It could take the droughts.

13. higher wages and better working conditions What 2 reasons caused labor unions form?

14. Greenville Dodge Who was the leader of the Union Pacific Railroad that linked the nation with the Transcontinental Railroad?

15. Great Northern What railroad was the only one to not go bankrupt?

16. Bessemer Who came up with the process to make steel faster and stronger?

17. Union Pacific and Central Pacific What two railroads built the transcontinental railroad?

18. not enough rain to grow grass for cattle Why did Americans believe cattle ranches could not be on the Great Plains?

19. 160 How many acres did farmers get under the Homestead Act?

20. blacklisted What term means what happened to “troublemakers” who tried to start unions or strike in a factory which kept them from getting future jobs?

21. 1862 Homestead Act date 186218691876 187918831887

22. 1887 Dawes Act Date 186218691876 187918831887

23. 1883 Date Time Zones Created 186218691876 187918831887

24. 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn Date 186218691876 187918831887

25. 1879 Light Bulb invented date 186218691876 187918831887

26. 1869 Date of Completion of Transcontinental Railroad 186218691876 187918831887

27. John D. Rockefeller Who used ruthless tactics to begin Standard Oil and ran other oil companies out of business?

28. Cornelius Vanderbilt Who made a fortune joining small railroads together?

29. threshing machines, reapers, seed drills, plows What new equipment helped farmers on the Great Plains in the 1860s?

30. Lincoln Which president signed the Homestead Act?

31. Little Big Horn What incident did the Lakota Sioux kill the U.S. army in Montana to keep from being sent to a reservation?

32. 1. Indians didn’t want to farm. 2. They were proud of their culture. 3. The liked their nomadic life following the buffalo. What are 3 reasons the Dawes Act failed?

33. horizontal alignment What term refers to combining firms in the same business into one corporation?