Industrial Revolution

What are the names of the two largest receiving areas of immigrants? 

• Ellis Island
• Angel Island
• All of the above 

Immigrants came to the United States because of both push and pull factors. Often they were pushed out of their home countries because of war, poverty, or discrimination. Why were they pulled to the United States? 

• They were pulled to the United States by the hope of earning money to return home
• They were pulled to the United States because of promise of economic opportunity, religious freedom and political social equality 
• They were pulled to the United States because of religious freedom only 
• They were pulled to the United States to be free from poverty only 

The _________ was invited by Samuel Morse in order to help the railroads. 

• Telegraph
• Telephone
• Telescope
• Television

What is an invention? 

• The creation of something in the hands
• The creation of something in the legs
• The creation of something in the toes
• The creation of something in the mind

Thomas Edison invented the incandescent _____ _____ to safely light homes. 

• Light bulb 
• Candle wick
• Flash light
• Kerosene lamp

The ___________ was invented by Alexander Graham Bell to improve communication. 

• Television
• Telegraph
• Telephone
• Telescope

Which groups of immigrants built what parts of the transcontinental railroad? 

• Mexican-wester; german-eastern
• Spanish-western; french-eastern
• Chinese-western; Irish-eastern 
• Russian-western; Polish-eastern

In business, what is a monopoly?

• A war
• A board game we play
• A business with little or no competition
• A business that has a lot of competition 

Which of the following people and inventions belong together? 

• cotton gin- Henry Ford
• telephone services- Alexander Graham Bell 
• telegraph services- Eli Whiteny
• electric lights- Henry Bessemer

Henry Ford found he could produce cars less expensively and more quickly by doing which of the following? 

• using the assembly line
• using designs made in Japan
• using plastic instead of steel
• hiring only immigrants