Economy Flashcards
The number of people living on farms rose by what between 1865 - 90
15 million
What happened to the number of farms between 1865 - 1890
Doubled
When was the Oklahoma land rush, how much land was said to be free to white settlers
1889, 2 million acres
When was the union pacific, a transcontinental railway, finished
1869
When did the years of drought begin
1887
What followed the panic of 1873
5 years of recession, many firms went bankrupt
What was the pop of Philadelphia in 1860 us 1890
60 - 570 K, 90 - 1 million
When were there improved technologies in refrigeration
1867
When did Thomas Edison invent the lightbulb
1879
By when were smaller oil corporations merging into large ones
1874
How many miles of track were there in 1865 us 1893
65 - 35K, 93 - almost 200k
When was the northern pacific railroad completed
1883
Steel was growing at a rate of what per year
7%
An estimated what percentage of oil refining in the world was controlled by standard oil in the 80s
85%
What process in the 80s speeded up production of steel
Bessemer process
