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Where was the first transcontinental railroad completed at?

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Promontory Point, Utah

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2
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Name two robber barons.

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Rockefeller and Carngie

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3
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Name a railroad baron?

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Vanderbilt

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What kind of workers worked on the Transcontinental Railroad?

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Irish and Chinese immigrants.

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What were the struggles while building the Transcontinental Railroad?

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Accidents, pneumonia and other diseases

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What kind of workers did the Central Pacific hire?

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Chinese immigrants

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What kind of workers did the Union Pacific hire?

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Irish immigrants

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What two companies were hired to build the Transcontinental Railroad?

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Union and Central Pacific

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what was the average pay working on the Transcontinental Railroad?

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$40-60

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What was the average work hours when working on the Transcontinental Railroad?

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10 hours

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What did the Bessemer process do?

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Was a faster and easier way to make steel.

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What was the first invention of the Industrial revolution?

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Railroads.

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Railroad standernized what?

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Time zones

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14
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Railroads promoted what?

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trade and interdependence

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15
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What lead to west settlement?

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Railroads

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16
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What did shopping by mail do?

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Made it easier to get goods that were not locally produced

17
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What is the Free Enterprize system also known as?

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capitalism

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What is the Free Enterprize system?

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19
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What tatics did the robber barons use?

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pools, rebates, monopolies, and trusts

20
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What was the first law made to help buyers?

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The Sherman Antitrust Act.

21
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Where did the Industrial Revolution start?

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Great Britain

22
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Carnegie Steel produced ____ of the nation’s (USA) steel

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80%

23
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Who gave away 90% of his wealth

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Andrew Carngie

24
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Who built 3,000 libraries across the US

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Andrew Carngie

25
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What is Controlling all steps to change raw materials into finished products

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VERTICAL INTEGRATION

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What is Horizontal Integration

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Buy out competitors and Companies making similar products merge

27
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What is a firm that managed to buy out all its competitors or complete control over its industry’s production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged.

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A Monopoly

28
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what was J.P. Morgan

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a very successful banker

29
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What did Thomas Edison invent?

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Light bulb and phonograph

30
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Who made the first opporating

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