industrialization review

How did the Railroad help industrialization to grow in the US?

• Creates new local markets

• It allowed goods to be shipped to Europe

• It allowed access to goods produced all over the US

• It stored food

Raw materials and natural resources were manufactured into goods in the US to be sold in the national markets.

• True

• Falso

How did this image help industries grow?

• flour was a national market

• banks got rich off flour investments

• Andrew Carnegie got rich from flour

• advertising helped convince consumers to buy certain products

Catalogs helped grow industries becasue _____.

• they read them on the railroads

• inventors got good ideas

• consumers had access to more goods

• it improved commuication

Why did many farmers begin leaving the countryside during Industrialization?

• To find new jobs

• To avoid pollution

• To seek adventure

• To escape discrimination

Rockefeller controlled over 90% of the oil made in the United States. His business was...

• An Imperialist business

• Agrarian

• A Monopoly

• A Corporation

A negative name for industrial tycoons would be:

• scabs

• robber barrons

• captains of industry

• philanthropists

The majority of workers that helped build the western portion of the Transcontinental railroad came from:

• China

• Japan

• Ireland

• Mexico

The Bessemer process improved

• the production of electricity

• factory production

• the transmission of Morse code

• the production of steel

What did the government give railroad companies as payment?

• railroad stations

• natural resources

• land

• housing