Know the answers to the following statements for the completion portion of the test



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Chapter 19
Know the answers to the following statements for the completion portion of the test.



Construction of ____________________ increased the demand for iron, steel, coal, timber, and other goods.
Demand for goods created thousands of new ____________________ for American workers.
The railroads allowed American industry to expand into the ____________________ part of the country.
During the late 1800s, the government granted more than 400,000 ____________________ for new inventions.
In 1866, a transatlantic ____________________ cable connected the United States with Europe.



Know information about the question below for your essay. Remember it must be one paragraph consisting of at least 5 complete sentences.
How did the railroads stimulate the economy?


  1. Who took Edison's work a step further by developing transformers?

  2. Who pioneered the assembly line?

  3. Child-labor laws did not apply to what industry, which employed about 1 million children?

  4. Anti-labor feeling grew after the bloody clash in Chicago called the

  5. Who was the steel company owner who was a great philanthropist?

  6. The combining of companies is called

  7. The fast-growing national rail system encouraged the expansion of the

  8. The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a

  9. Which inventor's most important invention was the electric light bulb?

  10. Whose shoe-making machine performed many steps previously done by hand?

  11. The steelworkers' union dwindled after the failure of the

  12. Railroad barons were created because the industry

  13. Who invented the telephone?

  14. Whose electric power plant lit up 85 buildings in New York City?

  15. In 1886, a group of national trade unions formed the

  16. The United States Attorney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction to stop the

  17. The inventor of the railroad sleeping car was

  18. Who linked the United States and Europe with a transatlantic telegraph line?

  19. What led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry?

  20. Who was the philanthropist who built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide?




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