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Chapter 17 AMH 2020 University Of Central Florida Question and answers already passed Chapter 16 - AMH 2020 Quiz Review What years are considered the Gilded Age? - correct answer What year was the Statue of Liberty dedicated to the United States in part of celebrating a friendship in de...

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Chapter 16 - AMH 2020 Quiz Review
What years are considered the Gilded Age? - correct answer ✔1870-1890


What year was the Statue of Liberty dedicated to the United States in part of
celebrating a friendship in dedication to the triumph of freedom in the Civil
War? - correct answer ✔1886 - this was meant to celebrate the friendship
between France and United States


What does the Statue of liberty symbolize? - correct answer ✔American
Freedom


In addition to the building of the Statue of Liberty, what also began in the
United States in the year 1886? - correct answer ✔Huge waves of strikes
and labor protests and violence in the nation's history. These events exposed
deep social division in an industrializing society.


During the Second Industrial Revolution, what is the primary factor that
catapulted success around the country? - correct answer ✔Railroads


What helped triple the numbers of miles of rail between 1860 and 1880, and
then triple again over the next 40 years? - correct answer ✔- Private
investment,
- grants of land and money by federal state and local governments


What did Railroads during the 2nd industrial revolution help do? - correct
answer ✔Opened vast new areas to commercial farming and creating a
national market for manufactured goods.

, By the 1890s, how many transcontinental railroad lines carried western mine,
farm, ranch, and forest product to market in the East, which in turn made
factory goods for the west? - correct answer ✔5


True or False: Since railroads were an important factor in the economy during
this time period, any financial crisis in the rail industry directly shocked the
ENTIRE national economy. - correct answer ✔True


During the Second Industrial Revolution, a period of innovation prevailed.
Name the Spirits of Innovation that are most notable. - correct answer
✔Telegraph lines, telephone, typewrite, camera, phonograph, light bulb,
motion picture, electricity.


Telegraph lines crossed the Atlantic to where? - correct answer ✔Europe


During the 1870s and 1880s, what forms of technology were being used? -
correct answer ✔Telephone, typewrite, and handheld camera.


Who created the phonograph, light bulb, and motion picture? This person also
revolutionized private life, public entertainment, and economic entertainment. -
correct answer ✔Thomas A. Edison


Edison also created what kind of systems that helped enable industrial and
urban growth by providing a more dependable and useful source of power
than water or steam? - correct answer ✔Edison created a system for
distributing electric power, and soon entire cities had electricity for homes,
factories, and street cars.


To stabilize prices and profits, railroads and other companies formed "?" to
divide markets and fix prices. - correct answer ✔"Pools"

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