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What are two ways to convert iron to steel.
Bessemer & Open Hearth.
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Who is Thomas Edison.
Owner of 1,093 patents.
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Who are people who ruthlessly took advantage of workers and destroyed competitors in order to grow rich.
Robber Baron.
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What is Thomas Edison's middle name.
Alva
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What is an oil well.
1st successful well in 1859.
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What are the 4 time zones in the United States.
Eastern, Pacific, Central, Mountain.
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Who is the man most responsible for the growth of the U.S steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie.
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Who are the people Alexander graham bell worked with when he got the idea to invent the telephone
Hearing impaired children
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What is the Homestead Act.
Free land if you farm it for 5 years.
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What is the Transcontinental railroad.
Tracks that connect the Atlantic and Pacific coast.
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Who are Robber Baron's
Captains of industry whose business skills and vision made the us the greatest industrial power in the U.S.
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What is the age Carnegie was when he went to work for the Pennsylvania railroad.
34
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Who is Alexander Graham Bell.
Inventor of the telephone.
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What are the date the tracks of the transcontinental railroad came together.
May 10 1869.
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Who is Thomas Edison
Most productive inventor between the 1860's and 1900's.
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What is the color of the hammer that officers of each company used to strike down a golden spike that would fasten the last pieces of adjoining track and complete the Transcontinental railroad.
Silver
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Who is Henry Ford.
Inventor of the car.
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What is how many cars produced by Henry Ford's assembly line.
146 cars/hour.
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Who is the party that controlled congress when they passed the Homestead Act
Republican Party
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What is the number of tracks the Union Pacific layed down in the rocky mountains.
1,086
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