Industrialization in America

The industrial revolution is a time period characterized by

• more work being done by hand

• many people moving to rural areas

• mass production being done with machines

• mass transit is no longer in use

How did Henry Ford use the assembly line?

• made cars cheaper

• mass produced cars

• division of labor to produce cars

• all of the above

He made a reliable automobile affordable for the average American

• Thomas Edison
• Andrew Carnegie
• Henry Ford
• John Chevrolet

He is known as the inventor of the telephone

• Andrew Carnegie
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Wright Brothers
• Henry Ford

Assembly lines helped in speeding up production 

• True
• False

December 17, 1903, they succeeded in flying the first free, controlled flight of a power-driven, heavier than air plane

• The Blues Brothers
• The Wright Brothers

He is credited for inventing the electric light

• Thomas Edison
• Henry Ford
• Andrew Carnegie
• Alexander Graham Bell

Inventions are created to solve problems or improve the way things are done.

• True
• Falsee

Who is credited for inventing the telephone

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• William Howard Bell

• Edward Edison

The period of social and economic change that transformed Americans from an agricultural society into an industrial one

• Great Migration

• Industrialization

• The Civil War

• Reconstruction