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Industrialization Of America Quiz

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The__________________________ was the time in America filled with economic and population growth.

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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

Match

Railroad

steel

oil well

Funded libaries, colleges

Titusville, Pennsylvania

first to use double tracks

Andrew Carnegie

Edwin Drake

Cornelius Vanderbilt 

What industry did the railroad system help build?

meat packing industry

farming industry

restaurant industry

textile industry

What was another name for the Industrialization of America?

The Factory Era

The Railroad Era

The Farming Era

The Progressive Era

Who was known as the Empire Builder?

Hernry Rockefeller

James Hill

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Andrew Carnegie

Match

Poor Sanitation

Leisure Activities

Public Transportation

Lack of housing

Good Things associated with Cities

Bad Things associated with the Cities

Most cities specialized in one or two___________________.  (this defined the city)

Building Types

Industries

Bridges

Government agencies

The percent of the population that moved to and lived in the cities by 1900:

10%

20%

100%

40%

What "connected" early American cities? (they were no longer isolated from one another)

Steamships

The railroad

Wagon Trails

Air Travel

The first use for petroleum was..........

automobiles

trains

fuel for kerosene lamps

fertilizer

Industrialization was a great time for inventions:  two inventions of early that changed the world were......

electric lightbulb

tanks

telephone

wagon wheel

In 1884, this country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States

Italy

France

England

Argentina

What is a monopoly?

A corporation that has very little competition

A business owner

A fun game

A single business

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

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

Immigrants from these countries came seeking fortune:

Argentina, Canada, Mexixo

Poland, Greece, Russia and Italy

Turkey, Zimbabwe, Kenya, 

Brazil, Spain, China, Iran

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

Jewish immigrants came to early America seeking.......

religious freedom

fame

fortune

a warmer climate

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

Who invented the elevator?

Elisha Otis

Alexander Graham Bell

Henry Ford

Thomas Edison

Who made it possible for the average American to own an automobile?

Thomas Edison

Ben Franklin

Henry Ford

Elisha Otis

What invention by Ottmar Mergenthaler made it possible for publishing Newspapers?

first computer

typesetter

typewriter

paper