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Quiz - Agriculture and Industrialization after the Civil War





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How many patents were granted in the years before 1860?



How many over the next 30 years?



What did Samuel F.B. Morse invent?



What year did Alexander Graham Bell exhibit a telephone?



What year was the adding machine invented?



Who was Andrew Carnegie and what did he do?



In 1830 one of every 15 people lived in a community of 8,000 or more by 1860 what was the ratio?



Who was President in 1887?



List 3 agriculture comities which expanded in production between 1860 and 1900



When was the Morill Land Grant College Act allotted by congress and what does it provide for?



What did the Homestead Act of 1862 grant?





What year was the Union Pacific Railroad chartered?Between 1866 and 1888 how many head of cattle werer driven up from Texas to the high plains of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana?




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