Answer: Made steel production cheap and abundant, enabling skyscrapers, railroads, and bridges Andrew Carnegie's steel empire was built on this process.

AP US History · Topic 6.5

Technological Innovation Practice

Part of Period 6: 1865–1898.

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$The Bessemer process$
- A
  $Was an agricultural technique that mechanized wheat harvesting on the Great Plains$
- B
  $Was a banking method allowing rapid capital transfers between industrial firms$
- C
  $Made steel production cheap and abundant, enabling skyscrapers, railroads, and bridges$
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- D
  $Made oil refining cheap and abundant, enabling kerosene lighting and gasoline production$
Why
$Andrew Carnegie's steel empire was built on this process.$
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