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Industrialization Quiz 2 Flashcards

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1
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`When was the first transcontiental rr built?

A

1869

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2
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How many days did the transcontiental rr cut from cross contry travel?

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26 days to 7 days

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3
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What helped pay for westward rrs and what was the impact?

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Federal subsides; made it easy to settle west

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4
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What did trains carry to the east and west?

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East: cattle
west: supplies

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5
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What did RR expansion help destroy?

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Buffalo on the range

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6
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What replaced buffalo on the range and provided meals for fast growing Eastern cities?

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Cattle

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7
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How much rr track was in 1860?

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30,626 mi

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8
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How much rr track was in 1870?

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52,922 mi

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9
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How much rr track was in 1880?

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93,262 mi

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10
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How much rr track was in 1890?

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166,703 mi

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11
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Where were buffalo and cattle in 1860?

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Most midwest = buffalo

Southern tip of TX = cattle

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12
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Where were buffalo and cattle in 1870?

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most midwest was cattle with buffalo in northern midwest

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13
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Where were buffalo and cattle in 1880?

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Cattle covered the western half of the US with very little buffalo

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14
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What did the north mass produce during the Civil War?

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rifles, cannons, ships, and uniforms

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15
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What allowed people to communicate over long distances?

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telegraph and telephone

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16
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What was the Bessemer process?

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made steel production more economical

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17
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What was used to light and heat homes?

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Petroleum based products (keroscene)

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18
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What powered machines?

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Electricity

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19
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What was the internal combustion engine?

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used petroleum based gasoline to power cars and airplanes

20
Q

What did Elias Howe make and when?

A

sewing machine 1846

21
Q

What did Elisha Otis make and when?

A

passanger elevator 1852

22
Q

What did Christaphor Sholes make and when?

A

typewritter 1867

23
Q

What did Alexander Grahm Bell make and when?

A

Telephone 1876

24
Q

What did Thomas Edison make and when?

A

electric bulb 1879

25
Q

What did Orville and Wilbur Wright make and when?

A

airplane 1903

26
Q

What are the major RR towns?

A 
Chicago
St Louis
Minneapolis
San Fransico
Los Angeles
Tacoma
27
Q

What was the impact of technological innovations?

A

Raised standard of living
Transportation and Communication
New Engineering feats
Work and Buisness

28
Q

What was the impact of techological innovations in raised standard of living?

A

People became accustomed to mass produced products

29
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What was the impact of technological innovations in transportation and communication?

A

New forms of transprotaion (steamships, rr, automobiles)

New methods of communication (telegraph, telephone)

30
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What was the impact of technological innovations in new engineeering feats?

A

Bridges, skyscrapper of steel and concrete, and massive public buildings enabled urban cities to grow

31
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What was the impact of technological innovations in work and buisness?

A

As factories turned to faster and larger machines, workers nd employers lost all personal contact

32
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What did rrs promote?

A

the settlement of the frontier opening up the great plains

33
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What did the rrs link in the great plains to?

A

ranches and farms to urban markets

allowed farmers and ranchers to ship crop and livestock east

34
Q

What kinds of materials did the rrs bring?

A

brought raw materials to factories and finsished goods to customers

35
Q

Construction of rrs stimulated what kind of industries?

A

iron
steel
coal

36
Q

What were buisnesses before and after the war like?

A

before: small
after: the arrival of manufatoring facilites were capable of producing goods for a single market

37
Q

Why were manufactoring facilities profitable?

A

they were enormace

38
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Who was the first to use manufactoring facilities?

A

textiles but eventually all industries used it

39
Q

After the Civil War, what were buisnesses ran by?

A

corperations

40
Q

What is a corperation?

A

company that issues shares to investors

41
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What is a stockholder?

A

share in a corporations profits in the form of dividends

42
Q

Why did corportaions become widespread?

A

the large amounts of money they could raise

43
Q

What did the Norhtern Pacific RR link?

A

Chicago to Minneapolis to Tacoma

44
Q

What did the Union Pacific RR link?

A

Omaha to Sanfransico to Chicago

45
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What did the Santa Fe and Topeka trail link?

A

Chicago to Kansas City to El Paso

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