Industry and Urban Growth

Who was responsible for inventing the light bulb?

• Henry Ford

• Thomas Edison

• Jan Matzeliger

• Cyrus Field

What is the name for sensational newspaper reporting during late 1800s?

• assimilation

• anarchy

• yellow journalism

• compulsory education

Which is a reason nativists were opposed to immigration?

• Immigrants take away jobs

• Immigrants assimilate too quickly

• Immigrants are opposed to anarchy

• Immigrants provide new jobs

Another word for describing a big city is what?

• rural

• suburban

• urban

• super-politan

What does a patent give to a person?

• The right to open a new factory

• The right to farm an area of land

• The right to drive a car

• Exclusive right to sell an invention

Which if the following are negative impacts of the industrial revolution?

• child labor

• created jobs

• high wages

• unsafe working conditions

Which captain of industry controlled the steel industry?

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbuilt

What do you call a neighborhood with people who all speak the same language and share the same culture?

• shantytown

• urbanization

• tenement

• ethnic neighborhood

What do you call an apartment where immigrants lived?

• shantytown

• urbanization

• tenement

• ethnic neighborhood

What is it called when an immigrant is absorbing into the main culture of their new country?

• muckraker

• assimilate

• urbanization

• captain of industry