Social studies exam review

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Across
  1. 3. what were secret discounts
  2. 5. Most German people made their way to the area of the USA.
  3. 7. a product.
  4. 10. gold was discovered out west, boom towns popped up and the government felt that a transcontinental railroad was needed to connect the coasts. It was completed at Promontory Point and as a result the railroads created time zones to help create consistency in daylight hours.
  5. 11. lab was in Menlo Park, NJ.
  6. 16. these
  7. 17. helped early telegraph communication.
  8. 21. what were secret agreements
  9. 22. were rich deposits of silver streaks
  10. 23. longhorn was a type of cattle.
  11. 25. where would you burn a symbol ___ of an animal is called a
  12. 26. invented the telegraph wire.
  13. 28. The price collapse of the mid ___ marked the end of the cattle
  14. 30. was a railroad tycoon.
  15. 31. Homestead act was the federal land policy in 1862.
  16. 35. and controlling all of the aspects that go into making, selling and
  17. 36. Carnegie practiced vertical integration, which is the
  18. 38. what is the combining of separate companies
  19. 39. was the captain of the steel industry.
  20. 44. was the head of Standard Oil.
  21. 46. was the first place speech that could be heard
  22. 47. was a Spanish cowboy.
  23. 48. for consumer loyalty.
Down
  1. 1. of buying out all of the competition to avoid having to compete with other
  2. 2. invented the transformer- The Model T was the first car Ford built.
  3. 4. was a newspaper magnate
  4. 6. The inventor of the What was Alexander Graham Bell.
  5. 8. connected the Atlantic and Pacific
  6. 9. Railroad tracks were originally made of?
  7. 12. were one of the dangers of the cattle drive
  8. 13. What helped pave the way for an expansion into the west.
  9. 14. was another word for plains farmers.
  10. 15. More than 100 million people can trace roots back to
  11. 18. who invented the sleeping car
  12. 19. African Americans who moved west to be cowboys were called
  13. 20. D Rockefeller practiced Horizontal integration which is the
  14. 24. dealt out their own brand of justice in boomtowns.- Booms followed by busts led to ghost towns
  15. 27. Homesteaders who charged across the Oklahoma border on April 22, 1889 were called?
  16. 29. gauge A _____ was adopted by all railroad companies by the 1880s.
  17. 32. were financial aid given to railroads and other companies
  18. 33. was a Banking tycoon.
  19. 34. Inventor of the assembly was
  20. 37. Who invented air brakes and the transformer Who controlled the nation's rail traffic
  21. 40. means selling goods to other countries.
  22. 41. _____ owned the world’s largest newspaper.
  23. 42. Who built the Great Northern Line
  24. 43. Skyscrapers and helped cities become ­­­vertical.
  25. 45. and capitals and abbreviations that belong to each.