Ch2/Lesson 4: Growth of Industry

What are financial resources?

• goods manufactured and sold
• the people who work for a company
• things taken from nature to use
• money available to be used

Which man helped industrialize electricity (made it something usable of a large scale)?

• Thomas Edison.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• James Watt

• Horatio Alger

Which of these people helped invent the first telephone?

• Orville Wright

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

All of the following caused a growth in industry EXCEPT -(Choose the one that is the wrong answer)

• access to raw materials and energy sources

• lack of financial resources

• available work force

• abundant supply of new inventions

Who was a captain of the banking industry and could have helped businesses get a loan?

• JP Morgan
• Thomas Edison
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Jane Addams

What effect did the railroad have on an industry's access to resources?

• the railroads gave industries GREATER access to resources
• the railroads gave industries LESS access to resources
• the railroads had no effect on an industry's access to resources

What effect did the railroad have on the market for consumer goods?

• the railroads decreased the number of markets for a consumer goods
• the railroads helped create markets for a consumer goods
• the railroads had no effect on markets for consumer goods

Where were most factories located?

• along rivers and railroads
• in the Great Plains
• on the West Coast
• in the rural south

Who worked in urban factories? *

• African Americans from the South
• migrants from rural areas
• immigrants
• all of these

Which invention helped factories stay open for longer hours? *

• telephone
• light bulb
• steel plow
• barbed wire