Chapter 6 Test: Industrial Age

The main factors that accounted for the industrial boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s included all of the following

• wealth of natural resources 
• wealth of natural resources 
• increased importation of industrial equipment from Europe

Natural resources were essential to spark the industrial revolution.

• True
• False

The Bessemer Process was a technique that?

• increased importation of industrial equipment from Europe
• made steel stronger and at a lower cost
• made steel weaker and at a higher cost

The Bessemer Process led to new uses of steel, which included all of the following EXCEPT:

• the ability to construct innovative structures like the Brooklyn Bridge in New York
• the expansion upward in cities through the construction of skyscrapers
• the oil companies becoming the largest consumer of steel in the United States

The person who developed filaments and perfected the incandescent electric light was:

• Henry Bessemer
• George Westinghouse
• Thomas Alva Edison

The person who made electricity safer and less expensive?

• Henry Bessember
• George Westinghouse
• Thomas Edison

Inventions were vital to the nation's industrial growth.

• True*
• False

The transcontinental railroad:

• connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States
• connected the United States to Mexico
• connected key northern industrial cities with southern agricultural centers

Railroads were the biggest customer of steel

• True
• False

Union Pacific Railroad employed?

• Irish Immigrants
• Italian Immigrants
• Japanese Immigrants