INDUSTRY SUMMATIVE PART 1- LESSONS 1-2

BEFORE THE ADVENT OF AUTOMOBILES, OIL WAS PRIMARILY USED FOR

• MAKING CONCRETE

• LIGHTING

• MACHINE LUBRICATION

• POWERING RAILROADS

"IRON IS A DENSE METAL, BUT IT IS SOFT AND TENDS TO BREAK AND RUST.IT ALSO USUALLY CONTAINS OTHER ELEMENTS, SUCH AS CARBON. REMOVING THE CARBON FROM THE IRON PRODUCES A LIGHTER, MORE FLEXIBLE AND RUST RESISTANT METAL-STEEL. THE RAW MATERIAL NEEDED TO MAKE STEEL WERE READILY AVAILABLE. ALL THAT WAS NEEDED WAS CHEAP AND EFFICIENT MANUFACTURING PROCESS." NAME THAT PROCESS.

• THE CARNEGIE PROCESS

• THE PURIFICATION PROCESS

• THE BESSEMER PROCESS

• THE CARBON PROCESS

THE AMERICAN STATE MOST CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH STEEL PRODUCTION WAS...

• NEW YORK

• MICHIGAN

• PENNSYLVANIA

• OHIO

STEEL BECAME AN IMPORTANT INGREDIENT FRO WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING (PICK ALL THAT APPLY)

• BRIDGES, LIKE THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE

• SKYSCRAPERS

• RAILROAD TRACK AND FARM EQUIPMENT

THOMAS EDISON IS CREDITED WITH THE INVENTION OF THE LIGHT BULB, AND FOR THE METHOD USED TI DISTRIBUTE ELECTRICITY OVER GREAT DISTANCES. THESE INVENTIONS LED TO....(PICK ALL THAT APPLY)

• INCREASED FACTORY HOURS FOR WORK

• THE SPREAD OF CITIES AND TOWNS

• THE USE OF ELECTRIC STREETCARS

• THE INVENTION OF MULTIPLE LABOR SAVING ELECTRICAL DEVICES

How did the availability of electricity affect the decision of where to locate factories?

• Business owners now had less freedom in deciding where to locate a factory.

• In order to have power, factories now had to be located near rivers or streams.

• Business owners could now consider factors such as population in their decision.

• Since travel was more expensive, factories now had to be located near where workers lived.

Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter in 1867 and it changed the world of work. next Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson unveiled the Telephone 1876. it allowed people to talk to each other over long distances and open the way for World Wide communication network. Companies quickly found the Telephone and the typewriter to be valuable business tools. Besides improving communication the typewriter and telephone also......

• Created jobs for women as telephone operators and mangers of office correspondence.

• Were widely used in classrooms as more and more Americans attended College.

• Gave rise to the "telemarketing" industry which began in this time period.

• Ended the need for the Postal Service.

New inventions and processes developed between 1825 and 1905 were responsible for....Choose the correct 2 of the 3 possible answers.

• An increase in immigration as people migrated to the USA for greater opportunity and quality of life.

• An increase in wealth and power of business owners and an increase in people living in cities and working in factories.

• An increase in farming and rural living.

BECAUSE RAILROADS WERE SO IMPORTANT TO THE GROWING USA, GOVERNMENT PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THEIR DEVELOPMENT. GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTED TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILROADS BY..

• AWARDING HUGE TRACKS OF LAND TO RAILROAD DEVELOPERS AND PROVIDING LOANS

• DIRECTLY PAYING-FREED SLAVES AS RAILROAD LABORERS

• COVERING THE COST OF TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT

• SUSPENDING MINIMUM WAGE REQUIREMENTS TO ENSURE CHEAP LABOR.

THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD WAS COMPLETED AT PROMONTORY POINT, UTAH IN 1869. THE TWO COMPANIES INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT WERE...

• THE SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY AND AMTRAC

• THE UNION PACIFIC AND THE CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES

• THE WEST TO EAST AND THE EAST TO WEST RAILROAD COMPANIES

• THE WESTERN AND EASTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANIES