Industrial Age Chapter 20 Lessons 1 & 2

What is the practice of combining separate companies in an industry called?

• consolidation

• monopoly

• philanthropy

• rebate

Who developed the railroad sleeping car?

• Eli H. Janney

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• George M. Pullman

Who invented the telephone?

• George Westinghouse

• Thomas Edison

• Cyrus Field

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who pioneered the assembly line?

• Henry Ford

• Jan Matzeliger

• Thomas Edison

• Cyrus Field

Which inventor's most important invention was the electric lightbulb?

• Thomas Edison

• Granville Woods

• Henry Ford

• George Eastman

What did large railroad companies offer as incentives for their biggest customers?

• Company Stocks

• Coupons

• Rebates

• Volume Discounts

The growing railroad network helped American industry expand into

• the East

• the West

• rural areas

• overseas markets

What are people called who start businesses?

• shareholders

• trusts

• investors

• entrepreneurs

This is an example of how industrialization made life better.

• new inventions made life easier
• farmers moved from the  country to the city
• big cities were crowded with new people
• people worked long hours

This term is synonymous with country, or small population.

• rural
  urban 
• suburban
• rural
• subrural