Industrial Revolution/Immigration Test Review

What new process allowed steel to be more rapidly produced for less money?

• Homestead process

• Bessemer process

• Carnegie process

• Steel melt process

What is one of the things Thomas Edison perfected?

• cotton gin

• internet

• airplane

• electric light bulb

Samuel Morse invented the _______________, a way of carrying messages along wires.

• typewriter

• telephone

• telegraph

• phonograph

Who invented the telephone in 1876?

• Samuel F. B. Morse

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Bell South

Which of the following was a characteristic of the Industrial Revolution?

• Goods were beginning to be made in factories instead of homes.

• Many people moved away from the cities to farms.

• The United States was mostly a nation of farmers.

• Workers produced fewer goods.

During the Industrial Revolution, who built a new mode of transportation that would change how people traveled around the world?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Albert Einstein

• Wright Brothers

The Progressive Movement brought on many reforms to benefit the American people. Two reforms that are still around today include

• Muckrakers and Trustbusters

• Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

• Monopolies & Big Business Act

• Economic Opportunity Act & Roosevelt Act

What was one positive effect the Industrial Revolution had on our country?

• We lost business with other countries.

• The economy improved.

• People lost their jobs.

• We went to war with Canada.

What was Henry Ford’s method to mass produce cars?

• the Bessemer process

• the assembly line

• cheap labor

• child labor

What is the best title for this web?

• Men of the 21st Century

• Men of the State of New York

• Inventors of the Industrial Revolution

• Scientists of the 21st Century