U.S. Top. 2.2 A New Industrial Age

Natural resources were essential to spark the industrial revolution.

• True
• False

The Bessemer Process was a technique that?

• increased importation of industrial equipment from Europe
• made steel stronger and at a lower cost
• made steel weaker and at a higher cost

The Bessemer Process led to new uses of steel, which included all of the following EXCEPT:

• the ability to construct innovative structures like the Brooklyn Bridge in New York
• the expansion upward in cities through the construction of skyscrapers
• the oil companies becoming the largest consumer of steel in the United States

The person who developed filaments and perfected the incandescent electric light was:

• Henry Bessemer
• George Westinghouse
• Thomas Alva Edison

The person who made electricity safer and less expensive?

• Henry Bessember
• George Westinghouse
• Thomas Edison

The transcontinental railroad:

• connected the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States
• connected the United States to Mexico
• connected key northern industrial cities with southern agricultural centers

The division of the earth’s surface into 24 hour time zones was proposed by?

• Thomas Edison

• CF Dowd
• George Westinghouse

Which two inventions helped to change the role of women?

• typewriter & telephone
• phonograph & airplane
• radio & telephone
• typewriter & assembly line

What is an entrepreneur?

• someone who lives in a company town
• someone who starts a business
• someone who has a monopoly
• someone who is sucessful

Introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's surface

• Edwin L. Drake
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Bessemer
• Thomas Edison