Chapter Six Word Bank
Edwin Drake Transcontinental Railroad Andrew Carnegie IWW
Bessemer Process George Pullman Vertical Integration Mary Harris Jones
Thomas Edison Credit Mobilier Social Darwinism Samuel Gompers
Christopher Shoals Munn v. Illinois John D. Rockefeller John D. Rockefeller
Alexander Graham Bell Interstate Commerce Act Sherman Act AFL
Samuel Gompers Eugene Debs
Section 1
1. What natural resources were most important for industrialization?
2. How did steel change the face of the United States?
3. What were three inventions that were developed during American industrialization?
Section 2
4. What were the major effects of railroad expansion?
5. How did the railroads affect cities?
6. How did railroad owners us Credit Mobilier to make huge, illegal profits?
7. How did the Grangers do battle against the mighty railroad companies?
Section 3
8. Explain how Andrew Carnegie’s vertical integration help to make him so wealthy.
9. What is Social Darwinism and how did it help justify capitalism?
10. What strategies did men like Rockefeller use to eliminate competition?