This quiz covers post civil war America's industry expansion. Inventions and inventors of this time period are included.
Mr. Mattox
Edwin L. Drake
Alexander Graham Bell
George Bessemer
Thomas Alva Edison
T. La Fone
Thomas Edison
Thomas Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
All of the above
The typewriter.
Sandals that exercise your feet.
Gasoline engine.
Telegraph.
A large supply of natural resources.
An explosion of inventions.
A growing city population that wanted the new products.
Gold and silver were plentiful.
Many workers died.
New cities and towns sprang up across the country.
Trade increased.
Time zones were instituted.
All of the above.
Monopoly
Trust
Social Darwinism
Horizontal integration
Vertical integration.
A game that takes hours to play.
Situation in which one company controls an entire industry.
When companies who produce similar products merge.
When someone buys out companies that supply the raw materials.
None of the above.
John D. Rockefeller
Joseph Darwin
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
None of the above.
A trust.
A monopoly.
A boom.
A holding company.
All of the above.
The region was still recovering from the Civil war.
Many Southerners refused to invest their money in businesses in the South after the war.
Most Southerners who tried to start businesses had difficulty overcoming economic obstacles.
Southern businesses could not compete with Northern companies which were already well established.
Southerners are just lazy as evidence in their southern drawl accent.
Samuel Gompers
George Bush
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Samuel Clemens