Question

1. How did the railroads impact the US oil industry?

2. Why did many people move to the West in the 1800s?
3. How did monopolies develop in America in the late nineteenth century?
4. Describe the positive and negative impacts of Andrew Carnegie.
5. How did the electric light bulb impact factories?
6. Describe the causes and effects of immigrants living in urban areas.
7. Where were the majority of the “new” immigrants from and how did they differ from the “old” immigrants?
8. Describe the significance of Samuel F. Gompers and the AFL.
9. Why did workers in the late 1800’s form labor unions?
10. The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad fulfilled which U.S. policy/principle?
11. What groups were responsible for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
12. Where were most of the Indian reservations located?
13. How did western migration impact Native Americans?
14. What was a muckraker and how did they impact society in the early twentieth century?
15. How did Ida Tarbel’s book impact the Standard company?
16. What were the effects of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle?
17. What were the causes and effects of the Progressive Movement?
18. What was the significance of the 17ths Amendment?
19. What were the causes and effects of the Spanish-American War?
20. Why did President Roosevelt build the Panama Canal?
21. How did the railroads impact the Steel industry?
22. How did the telegraph change Americans’ outlook on the U.S.?
23. What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie and how did the treaty lead to the Great Sioux War?
24. In the 1800s, why did the government order the slaughter of the buffalo?
25. What was the purpose of Jane Addam’s Hull House in the early 1900s?
26. How was the U.S. impacted by the women’s suffrage movement?
27. Describe the effect of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
28. How did the Roosevelt Corollary impact the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 1

Railroads became a major industry, stimulating other heavy industries such as iron and steel production. These advances in travel and transport helped drive settlement in the western regions of North America and were integral to the nation's industrialization.

Step-by-step explanation:

An early landmark moment in the Industrial Revolution came near the end of the eighteenth century, when Samuel Slater brought new manufacturing technologies from Britain to the United States and founded the first U.S. cotton mill in Beverly, Massachusetts. Slater’s Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, like many of the mills and factories that sprang up in the next few decades, was powered by water, which confined industrial development to the northeast at first. The concentration of industry in the Northeast also facilitated the development of transportation systems such as railroads and canals, which encouraged commerce and trade.

The technological innovation that would come to mark the United States in the nineteenth century began to show itself with Robert Fulton’s establishment of steamboat service on the Hudson River, Samuel F. B. Morse’s invention of the telegraph, and Elias Howe’s invention of the sewing machine, all before the Civil War. Following the Civil War, industrialization in the United States increased at a breakneck pace. This period, encompassing most of the second half of the nineteenth century, has been called the Second Industrial Revolution or the American Industrial Revolution. Over the first half of the century, the country expanded greatly, and the new territory was rich in natural resources. Completing the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 was a major milestone, making it easier to transport people, raw materials, and products. The United States also had vast human resources: between 1860 and 1900, fourteen million immigrants came to the country, providing workers for an array of industries.

The American industrialists overseeing this expansion were ready to take risks to make their businesses successful. Andrew Carnegie established the first steel mills in the U.S. to use the British “Bessemer process” for mass producing steel, becoming a titan of the steel industry in the process. He acquired business interests in the mines that produced the raw material for steel, the mills and ovens that created the final product and the railroads and shipping lines that transported the goods, thus controlling every aspect f the steelmaking process.