Industrialization Review

How did the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad affect companies that made products?

• Companies could hire people who worked in different states.
• Companies could build factories in the rural West.
• Companies could expand into the South.
• Companies could ship goods cheaply.

What was one major effect of industrialization on American society?

• More people received free higher education
• More people received health care and benefits
• More people took up family farming
• More people moved to urban areas

The government does not interfere in the economy except to protect property rights and maintain peace.

• Social Darwinism
• Horizontal Integration
• Vertical Integration
• Laissez-Faire

What is the name of a person who risks money to start a business?

• Fool

• Teacher

• Stock holder

• Entrepreneur

Who made the cotton gin?

• Eli Whitney

• Samuel Morse

• The Wright Brothers

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

What are identical components that can be used in place of each other?

• Interchangeable parts
• Factories
• Dynamos
• Assembly Lines

The economy of the south was based on _________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• tourism
• trade

The economy of the north was based on ___________.

• manufacturing
• agriculture
• capitalism
• tourism

Which is TRUE regarding the cotton gin?

• It made more people see and admit the evils of slavery
• It caused demand for slaves to drastically increase
  
• It made cotton easier to plant
• It was invented by James Monroe

The ____________________ made it easier to travel, communicate, and trade. 

• Comstock Lode
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Vigilantes
• Chinese Exclusion Act