Industrial Revolution

What led the way in the Second Industrial Revolution?

• steel
• chemicals
• electricity
• all of the above

What types of things was steel used for?

• railways
• ships
• weapons
• all of the above

What other forms of energy was electricity easily converted into?

• heat
• lights 
• motion 
• all of the above

Name the United States inventor of the light bulb.

• Thomas Edison
• Eli Whitney
• James Hargreaves
• James Watt

Name the inventor of the telephone.

• Thomas Edison
• Joseph Swan
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Eli Whitney

What types of things were powered by electricity?

• conveyor belts
• cranes
• machines
• all of the above

Explain the impact electricity had on factories.

• Factories had to close down early.
• Factories could remain open 24 hours a day.
• People began moving back to the countryside.
• People could only go to the factories in the morning.

How did the internal-combustion engine impact transportation?

• It provided a new source of power in transportation that gave rise to the airplane and automobile.
• It provided a new source of power in the textile industry that gave rise to better clothes.

Who pioneered the assembly line in 1913?

• Thomas Edison
• Henry Benz
• Henry Ford
• Ford Wrangler

The assembly line allowed a much more efficient  ______________ of goods.

• mass transportation
• mass production