Chapter 20 The Industrial Age

A powerful business leader who controlled a major railroad was called a...

• railroad baron

• oil tycoon

• steel mongol

• standard gauge

Which railroad baron expanded his empire from NYC to the Great Lakes?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

What helped improve railway transportation by creating a sensible schedule?

• air brakes

• the Janney Car Coupler

• Time Zones

• steel railroads

What two inventions made communication faster and easier? (instant communication)

• the airplane and the Model-T

• the telegraph and the telephone

• the typewriter and the light bulb

• the Kodak camera and the adding machine

How did railroads change America?

• American industry expanded into the West

• Railroads aided in the development of other major industries (such as steel)

• railroads changed where people lived

• all of these answers are correct

Who invented the Model-T car?

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

• Andrew Carnegie

Who invented the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• George Eastman

• Benjamin Franklin

Who invented the light bulb and and phonograph?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

• Ben Franklin

• Thomas Edison

What did the Wright brothers invent?

• the first train

• the first car

• the first airplane

• the first helicopter

What is an entrepreneur?

• a person who starts a business

• a person who works for a major corporation

• a person who buys stock from a corporation

• a person who works for the government