Inventors and Inventions

________ refers to new ideas about how to make or do something more efficiently (easier, cheaper, and faster).

• Labor
• Goods
• Technology
• Capital

The _______ allowed businesses to communicate more easily over long distances without having to learn a new language. This also quickly became very popular and is used in almost every home across the country. 

• Telephone
• Telegraph
• Lightbulb
• Airplane

The _________ was a new method of mass production that required workers to learn one role in making a product and repeating the process. 

• Bessemer Process
• Assembly Line
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Henry Ford

_______ first used the assembly line process to help make the automobile. 

• Alexander Graham Bell
• Samuel Morse
• Thomas Edison
• Henry Ford

Which word describes an economy that is based off of farming cash crops?

• Agrarian
• Industrial

Which word describes an economy that is based off of factories and making consumer products?

• Agrarian 
• Industrial

_______ is most famous for improving the light bulb and allowing factories to stay open longer. 

• Thomas Edison
• Samuel Morse
• Henry Ford
• Alexander Graham Bell

New methods of transportation such as the _______ allowed raw materials to be shipped to cities to be turned into consumer goods.

• Telephone
• Telegraph
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Light bulb

_______ started the aircraft industry by inventing a plane.

• The Wright Brothers
• Henry Ford
• Thomas Edison
• Samuel Morse

The _______ allowed factories to stay open later so that they could make more products. 

• Telephone
• Telegraph
• Airplane 
• Light bulb