Chapter 20 - Lesson #1 and #2 Quiz Review

An exclusive right to make or sell an invention.

• Patent

• Corporation

• Monopoly

• Trust

New technologies in the steel industry in the late 1800s increased productivity in the...

• Textile Industry

• Oil Industry

• Railroad Industry

• Electric Industry

How did the telegraph differ from the telephone?

• The telegraph could work only in big cities.

• The telegraph was much more expensive than the telephone.

• The telegraph could carry only written messages.

• The telegraph could not send messages over long distances.

The telephone is the most well-known of __?__’s inventions.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

Wilbur and Orville Wright built a lightweight airplane that ran on a __?__-powered engine.

• Steam

• Gas

What was Thomas Edison's most famous invention?

• Telegraph
• microphone
• Vitascpe
• Light bulb 

The Central Pacific Railroad employed thousands of ___?___ immigrants.

• Irish
• German
• Chinese
• Japanese

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

• Gustavus Swift

• Henry Ford

• George M. Pullman

How were railroad barons created?

• by executive order

• by threats and intimidation

• by consolidating many small companies

• by order of the War Department