Industrial Revolution

What is mass production?

• The efficient production of large numbers of identical goods.
• Making mass using energy according to the equation E=mc²
• Making lots of tractors
• Having lots of kids

What did Samuel F. B. Morse invent?

• Morse code and the telegraph
• Morse code and the telephone
• Samuel code and the telephone
• Samuel code and the telegraph

What was the telegraph?

• a device that could send information over wires across great distances using a picture
• a device that could send information over wires across great distances using Samuel code
• a device that could send information over wires across great distances using your voice
• a device that could send information over wires across great distances using Morse code

What did the government do to help railroad companies build rail lines?

• gave them large tracts of land
• charged them high taxes
• gave them money to invest
• hired Irish and Chinese immigrants to help build rail lines

JP Morgan created United States Steel, International Harvest, and which other company?

• General Electric
• United Automobiles
• General Mills
• United States Petroleum 

Where did the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet?

• Atlanta, Georgia
• Promontory Summit, Utah
• Sacramento, California
• Omaha, Nebraska

Which individual is given credit for the steel blast furnance?

• Eli Whitney
• Henry Bessmer
• Alexander Bell
• Thomas Edison

Who pioneered the assembly line in 1913?

• Thomas Edison
• Henry Benz
• Henry Ford
• Ford Wrangler

The assembly line allowed a much more efficient  ______________ of goods.

• mass transportation
• mass production

Name the inventor of the telephone.

• Thomas Edison
• Joseph Swan
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Eli Whitney