United States and Westinghouse 17. the Bessemer Essay

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1.Johnsons plan of reconstruction was called presidential reconstruction.
2.States were required to void secession and abolish slavery.
3.Which amendment outlawed the black codes? 14th amendment
4.what was the name of Lincolns plan for reconstruction? 10% plan
5.what trails did people take to the west during the early 1800s? Oregon trail
6.prior to the civil war where did the most of the railroad track exist? Northern states
7.From which country did the U.S. acquire most of the land in the southern region of the U.S? Mexico
8.The two companies who laid the track for the RR were the central and the union pacific.
9.Who completed most of the work on the RR? Chinese immigrants
10.The building of the RR did not start to flourish until 1866.
11.work on the RR was progressing until silver was discovered in Nevada in 1865.
12.Bessemer process. Henry Bessemer
13.Telephone. Alexander Graham Bell
14.Telgraph. Samuel Morse
15.Phonograph. Thomas Edison
16.Air brakes. George Westinghouse
17.The Bessemer process led to the use of steel in which product. Sky scrapers bridges and automobiles
18.In which war were more than 200 U.S. soldiers killed including General Custer? Little Big Horn
19.The daws act forced native Americans on to reservation land.
20.Machines performed harvesting tasks to increase production and profit.
21.What was the first National park? Yellowstone 1872
22.Which area of the U.S. was the last to be settled in 1889? Oklahoma
23.Which business was the first to form a corporation? Railroads
24.The Sherman Anti Trust Act prohibited the use of monopolies in business.
25.Samuel Gompers organized the AFL.
26.In what business did the first major strike occur? Railroads
27. A corporation is a company that sold shares or stock of its profit.
28. When a producer has total control of a