Industrial Revolution and Immigration

The Pony Express was put out of business by the telegraph. Who developed a way to send the telegraph?

• Henry Ford
• Samuel Morse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie

What do we call the time period of new inventions and technologies?

• Immigration
• Technological Period
• Antebellum Period
• The Industrial Revolution

Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the invention of the ________________.

• light bulb
• automobile
• telephone
• telegraph

Thomas Edison invented more than 1,000 new inventions including:

• phonograph
• electric power station
• phonograph
• all of the above

The first airplane flight was made Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by whom?

• The Wright Brothers
• John D. Rockefeller
• Jane Addams
• Amelia Earhart

Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, but he did invent a way to mass produce them. This process is called an __________.

• mass production
• mechanization
• assembly line
• monopoly

Inventors created new machines to make farming easier. Using machines to do work is called ______________.

• machine work
• smart
• farming
• mechanization

Many immigrants came from Europe. Where did European Immigrants have to go before being allowed into America?

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island
• Hawaiian Islands
• Washington, DC

Immigrants that came from Asian countries had to go to ___________ in San Fransisco, CA before being allowed entry to the United States.

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island
• Hawaiian Islands
• Washington, DC

Because immigrants came to America with very little, they had to live in __________ which are run-down and unsafe buildings divided into apartments in the slums of cities.

• slums
• tenements
• complexes
• settlement houses