Industrial Revolution

What was Andrew Carnegie known for?

• Oil business
• Steel business
• Railroad business
• Banking

What was John D. Rockefeller known for?

• Multi Millionaire from a steel business
• Built railroads
• built an oil empire, Standard Oil kerosene.
• Fold away bed

What was Thomas Edison known for?

• Created the light bulb
• Created the morse code
• Oil business
• Banking

What is the movement of people from rural to urban areas called?

• the American economy benefited from low taxation.
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

This person invented the phonograph, audio recorder, battery, and electric lightbulb.

• Thomas Edison
• Nicolai Tesla
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie

What is Cornelius Vanderbilt known for? (best answer!)

• shipping
• boat industry
• railroads
• shipping and railroads

Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan, and Ford were known as

• industrialists
• robber barons
• captains of industry
• all of them

Financial Resources, the availability of a work force, new inventions, and access to raw materials and energy were all factors that led to the growth of __________________

• New inventions
• industries
• Agriculture
• Railroads

Which of the following were factors that resulted in the growth of industry?

• Access to raw materials  
• Financial Resources
• New inventions
  
• ALL OF THE ABOVE

Which of the following is NOT an example of a big business in the years following the Civil War?

• Shipping
• Oil
• Agriculture
• Steel