Question: By when had Americans transformed the U.S into the world’s leading industrial nation?

Answer: By the late 1800s.

Question: How much larger was the Gross National Product in 1914 than at the end of the Civil War?

Answer: Eight times greater than it had been in 1865.

Question: How did railroads help the nation to develop?

Answer: They took settlers and miners to the American West and carried resources back to factories in the East.

Question: What product was petroleum turned into for use in lanterns and stoves?

Answer: Petroleum was turned into kerosene for use in lanterns and stoves.

Question: How did a growing population help the nation’s industrialists?

Answer: It provided industry with an abundant workforce and created greater demand for consumer goods.

Question: How many immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1910?

Answer: More than 17 million immigrants arrived.

Question: What inventions did Thomas Alva Edison’s laboratory produce?

Answer: The phonograph, elevator, lightbulb, battery, dictaphone, and the motion picture.

Question: What innovation changed the textile industry?

Answer: The Northrop automatic loom changed the textile industry.

Question: What was the effect of mass production on shoe-making?

Answer: Cobblers had nearly disappeared by 1900.

Question: What did laissez-faire supporters believe about the role of government in economic affairs?

Answer: That the government should not interfere in the economy other than to protect private property rights and maintain peace.