Who invented the typewriter? Christopher Sholes.

Chapter 6 The Industrial Age

Who invented the typewriter?

Christopher Sholes

Who was the first to successfully use a steam

engine to remove oil from beneath the earth’s

surface?

Edwin L. Drake

Who ran the American Railway union and later ran for president several times

as a socialist?

Eugene Debs

Who was the Scottish immigrant who made

fortune in steel and donated most of his profits?

Andrew Carnegie

Who organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to

fight for better working conditions?

Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

Who created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while

serving as head of the Standard Oil Company?

John D. Rockefeller

Who perfected the incandescent light bulb,

created an electrical power system, and

organized power plants?

Thomas Alva Edison

Who developed a cheap and effective

manufacturing process for making

steel?

Henry Bessemer

A wealth of which natural resources were a major

factor of the nation’s industrial boom?

Iron oreCoalOil

Water

What lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant metal is

produced from removing carbon from

iron?

steel

What business bought the most

steel?

Railroad companies for the rails

What percentage of women made up the

nation’s clerical workforce in 1910?

40 percent

Because of the popularity of the

automobile, entrepreneurs were

prompted to transform more oil into what?

gasoline

Because of the importance of railroads for western settlement, what did the government give to the

railroad companies?

Land grants

Which two groups of immigrants did

railroad companies employ?

ChineseIrish

Under railroad time, how many time zones was the

United States divided into?

four

What were various measures enacted

by the states to regulate the

railroads known as?

Granger Laws

What controlled a quarter of the

nation’s railroads by the end of the 19th

century?

Financial companies (Trusts)

What workers were involved in the Great Strike of

1877?

Railroad workers

Who became a magnate of the oil

industry?

John D. Rockefeller

The End