Industrialization and the Gilded Age

Why did the south, including Tennessee, move towards industrialization after the Civil War?

• to ensure that freedmen did not have jobs

• to slow the plans for the Transcontinental Railroad

• to make sure the farmers had no work

• to make the South’s economy more competitive with the north

What important efforts were made towards helping Tennessee gain more industry during the 2^nd Industrial Revolution? Select two.

• writing newspapers

• creating jobs in the lumber industry

• volunteering to help carpetbaggers

• creating jobs in hotels

• creating jobs with the Coca-Cola plant

Which feature made the Great Plains appealing to the settlers in the late 1800s?

• canals to transport goods

• flat grasslands for farming

• mountains with gold

• forested hills for lumber

Why did many Americans and immigrants move west after the Civil War?

• to fight Native Americans

• to own land

• to work in factories

• to build automobiles

Who developed techniques to improve depleted soils caused by repeated plantings of cotton?

• Tuskegee

• George Washington

• George Washington Carver

• Booker T. Washington

Who was an inventor and scientist who patented “an electronic speech machine” and started the American Telephone and Telegraph company?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

Who was an inventor and scientist who improved the light bulb, leading to the development of electricity; had more than 1,000 patents?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Thomas Edison

• Benjamin Franklin

Which two groups played an important part in building the Transcontinental Railroad?

• African Americans and Native Americans

• Buffalo Soldiers and Chinese immigrants

• Steelworkers and Irish

• Irish and Chinese immigrants

What encouraged westward settlement by giving settlers ownership of more than 100 acres of land, as long as the requirements were met?

• Homestead Strike of 1892

• Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railway Act of 1862

• American Federation of Sod Busters

• Homestead Act of 1862

This era/time period was marked by rapid growth in economy and industry, the rise of a small group of the super-rich and a large class of urban poor.

• Reconstruction

• First Industrial Revolution

• Gilded Age

• Young Republic