US Industrialization

The Bessemer Process is the method of

• Process steel

• Mining coal

• Refining petroleum

• Pasteurizing milk

What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?

• cheap electric power

• the invention of the elevator

• fire safety standards

• new methods of making steel

Which two immigrant groups were most involved in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?

• Chinese and Irish

• German and Italian

• Spanish and Portuguese

• Russian and Indonesian

All of the following contributed to the rise of industrialization in America except

• Availability of natural resources

• Increased government control of corporations

• Large scale labor force

• Development of new technologies

The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit

• telephone and telegraph operators.

• railroad companies and train travelers.

• manufacturers who dealt in interstate trade.

• factory owners whose workers had set schedules.

Andrew Carnegie prospered in what business?

• Steel

• Oil

• Railroad

• Stock Market

Process by which a business will buy out all of its suppliers in order to control every step of the production process.

• Horizontal Integration

• Monopoly

• Vertical Integration

• Trust

John D. Rockefeller prospered in what business?

• Steel

• Railroad

• Stock Market

• Oil

One of the effects of the Industrial Revolution was increased urbanization, this means

• an increase in city population

• an increase in farming population

• an increase in immigrant population

• an increase in country population

After the Civil War, the south was

• In the same shape as it was before the war

• Still exporting many goods to Europe

• Reorganizing the Confederate government

• In ruins