The New Industrial Age

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  1. 3. The first country to provide national health insurance was?
  2. 5. In addition to inventing the light bulb, Edison developed a system for __________________ electrical power.
  3. 7. Many women found work in the new _______________ factories that sprung up and replaced jobs that were traditionally done in the home.
  4. 9. A person or organizes, operates and assumes the risk of a business venture is known as a?
  5. 12. Edwin L. Drake drilled the first successful oil well in ________________ Pa.
  6. 17. Thomas Edison established the first research __________________ in Menlo Park, NJ in 1876.
  7. 19. One of the many new uses for steel was the huge expansion of the __________________ across the country.
  8. 20. The growth in urban populations led to a wealth of cheap ____________ for industry.
  9. 21. The inventions of the telephone and typewriter created many new workplace opportunities for _______________.
  10. 22. A second reason for the new industrial age was government support for _________________.
  11. 23. The railroad that crossed the nation was known as the ___________________ railroad
  12. 27. Workers also found themselves as _______________ as they bought the products and new inventions that were now mass produced in factories.
  13. 28. The great advantage of the Open Hearth method was it allowed steel makers to use scrap metal and raw materials to make steel.
  14. 29. The __________________ Process helped to remove carbon from iron and converting it into steel.
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  1. 1. A third reason for the new industrial age was the growth of ____________ populations.
  2. 2. Electrical power meant that factories could be located _________________ not just sources of powers, such as rivers.
  3. 4. The invention of the ______________________ by Christopher Sholes in 1867 changed the world of work.
  4. 6. ______________________ freed some factory workers from backbreaking labor and helped to improve the worker's standard of living.
  5. 8. The growth of industry fed the growing markets for new _____________.
  6. 10. The Open _______________ method of steel making eventually replaced the Bessemer Process.
  7. 11. The city of _______________ was home to the world's first steel frame skyscraper.
  8. 13. _____________ Jones was an early leader organized labor.
  9. 14. Other industries needed _____________ as well, such as the McCormick, John Deere farm equipment companies and Glidden's barb wire company.
  10. 15. The main power source for factories quickly changed from steam power or water power to ______________ in the 1890s.
  11. 16. One of the reason for the new industrial age was a wealth of natural ________________.
  12. 18. An example of the technological advances made possible by steel was the building of the __________________ Bridge.
  13. 19. The Supreme Court case of Munn vs. Illinois established government __________________ of railroads
  14. 24. One of the most dramatic inventions was the __________________ and how it paved the way for a worldwide communications network.
  15. 25. The Swift and Armour meatpacking plants became the models of ________________ manufacturing for new consumer industries.
  16. 26. Huge deposits of iron ore were discovered in the _____________ range.