Industrial Revolution

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Which of the following does NOT describe the conditions in a typical early Industrial Revolution factory? Unsafe, Low wages, Dirty, Sanitary

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Sanitary

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The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced to benefit.

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Railroad companies and train travelers

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What contribution did Wilbur and Orville Wright make to the American economy?

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Conducted the first manned flight

Front

Social Darwinism was used to justify all the following EXCEPT: The existence of poverty, The power of millionaire industrialists, The success of big business, Government regulation of business

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Government regulation of business

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Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, involves

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Buying out raw material producers and distributors

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The Interstate Commerce Act gave the right to supervise railroad activities to

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The federal government

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What would a comparison of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions show?

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Both saw improvements in transportation but a truly national market only emerged in the second.

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Which African-American inventor is credited with over 50 patents on lubrication systems for engines?

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Elijah McCoy

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What goal motivated Henry Flagler to build the Florida East Coast Railway?

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To bring tourists to the luxury hotels he had built along the Florida coastline

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Which invention was patented in 1885 by Sarah Goode, the first African-American woman ever to receive a U.S. patent? A curved ironing board for shirt sleeves, A lubricator oil cup for steam engines, A unique shampoo to fight hair loss, A fold away bed

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A fold away bed