Rise of Industry

Which of the following helped fuel economic growth by encouraging people to buy American goods?

• monopolies

• patents

• protective tariffs

• laissez faire

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market? 

• boats
• railroads
• autombils 
• horse drawn carriages 

Which of the following changes during the Gilded Age?

• Americans move out of cities in large numbers to farm the west causing a huge decrease in urban population.

• America, with the rise of industry, transitions from hand made products to goods made on a large scale by machines in factories.

• America, growing in power, fights in a war against Great Britain for control of colonies.

• America, newly freed from Britain, creates its own constitution and government.

How does agriculture affect the population of the United States during the Gilded Age?

• Wide spread droughts lead to a huge decrease in the amount of produce available to the population, causing a sharp decrease.

• A disease, known as blight, wipes out the wheat harvest of the Great Plains which decreases the population across the United States.

• Crops become more expensive, because it is difficult to move them before they become rotten, thus the population of the US stays relatively the same.

• New technology allows crops to be grown on a wider scale, and railroads can transport them quickly, leading to a larger, more healthy population.

What is the goal of a protective tariff?

• A tariff is meant to make more money for the government so that it can create new programs to benefit the people.

• A tariff takes away the ability of people to make choices about their representatives in a democratic government.

• A tariff makes foreign goods more expensive, thus encouraging the purchase of domestic goods.

• A tariff prevented unfair business practices, such as monopolies.

Captains of Industry were

• leaders of labor unions who looked to make the workplace safer

• businessmen who created large companies and revolutionized the manufacture of goods

• government leaders who looked to pass laws that were favorable to business owners in order to create jobs

• inventors who pioneered new technologies

Alexander Graham Bell is best known for inventing the

• electricity

• bessemer process

• refrigerated railroad car

• telephone

Thomas Edison is best know for inventing the

• telephone

• lightbulb

• refrigerated rail cars

• bessemer process

How did electricity affect production?

• Electricity was expensive and few factories bothered with the cost of updating their equipment, so production remained stable.

• Electricity did not affect production in American factories.

• Production in factories decreased--owners had to spend more money on electricity and thus could purchase fewer raw materials.

• Factories, running around the clock, could now produce more goods over a 24 hour period.