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Industrialization Of America Quiz
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Question 1
1.
What is an entrepreneur?
A person who closes a business
A government
A person that starts his own business
A person that helps in a business
Question 2
2.
Match
Railroad
steel
oil well
Funded libaries, colleges
Titusville, Pennsylvania
first to use double tracks
Andrew Carnegie
Edwin Drake
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Question 3
3.
What industry did the railroad system help build?
meat packing industry
farming industry
restaurant industry
textile industry
Question 4
4.
What was another name for the Industrialization of America?
The Factory Era
The Railroad Era
The Farming Era
The Progressive Era
Question 5
5.
Who was known as the Empire Builder?
Hernry Rockefeller
James Hill
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
Question 6
6.
Match
Poor Sanitation
Leisure Activities
Public Transportation
Lack of housing
Good Things associated with Cities
Bad Things associated with the Cities
Question 7
7.
Most cities specialized in one or two___________________. (this defined the city)
Building Types
Industries
Bridges
Government agencies
Question 8
8.
The percent of the population that moved to and lived in the cities by 1900:
10%
20%
100%
40%
Question 9
9.
What "connected" early American cities? (they were no longer isolated from one another)
Steamships
The railroad
Wagon Trails
Air Travel
Question 10
10.
The first use for petroleum was..........
automobiles
trains
fuel for kerosene lamps
fertilizer
Question 11
11.
Industrialization was a great time for inventions: two inventions of early that changed the world were......
electric lightbulb
tanks
telephone
wagon wheel
Question 12
12.
In 1884, this country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States
Italy
France
England
Argentina
Question 13
13.
What is a monopoly?
A corporation that has very little competition
A business owner
A fun game
A single business
Question 14
14.
When the immigrants saw the Statue of Liberty, it symbolized what for them?
their landing area to a new life in America
amazing artwork
returning to their homeland
how much France loved America
Question 15
15.
The civil war actually helped start industry because it increased a need for this production:
bullets for weapons
restaurants for food for the soldiers
cloth for uniforms
logs for homes
Question 16
16.
Immigrants from these countries came seeking fortune:
Argentina, Canada, Mexixo
Poland, Greece, Russia and Italy
Turkey, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
Brazil, Spain, China, Iran
Question 17
17.
With all of the immigrants that settled in America, our country became known as the "_________________".
Industrial Capital of the World
Country of Families
Agricultural Giant
Melting Pot
Question 18
18.
Jewish immigrants came to early America seeking.......
religious freedom
fame
fortune
a warmer climate
Question 19
19.
Andrew Carnie's Steel company helped change the face of America by making these creations possible:
automobiles, tractors
skyscrapers, suspension bridges
barns, ranches
light bulbs, telephone poles
Question 20
20.
The__________________________ was the time in America filled with economic and population growth.
Question 21
21.
Who invented the elevator?
Elisha Otis
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Thomas Edison
Question 22
22.
Who made it possible for the average American to own an automobile?
Thomas Edison
Ben Franklin
Henry Ford
Elisha Otis
Question 23
23.
What invention by Ottmar Mergenthaler made it possible for publishing Newspapers?
first computer
typesetter
typewriter
paper