The Industrial Revolution Spreads

Which European nation after the British were the first to industrialize?

• Belgium

• France

• Spain

• United States

Henry Bessemer was responsible for developing a new process for making....

• steel from iron

• dynamite

• interchangeable parts

• airplane

Alfred Nobel invented...

• dynamite

• elevators

• typewriters

• electric light

What invention allowed factories to continue to operate at night?

• electric light bulb

• interchangeable parts

• elevator

• typewriter

What new method of production divided labor and allowed for a more efficient output of goods?

• assembly line

• skyscrapers

• transcontinental railroad

• automobile

Responsible for building the first plane.

• Wright

• Marconi

• Bessemer

• Noble

He created the telegraph which could send coded messages over wires by means of electricity.

• Samuel Morse

• Gugliemo Marconi

• John D. Rockefeller

• Alfred Krupp

Shares of a company are known as...

• Stocks

• Corporations

• Capital

• Enterprise

This American held a monopoly on the Oil industry.

• Alfred Krupp

• John D. Rockefeller

• Alfred Noble

• Henry Bessemer

True or False: Corporations would sometimes join forces to form a cartel in order to collectively fix prices in an industry.

• True

• False