Unit 2: Outcome 1 Industry

Which of the following is an example of a natural resource(s) that helped US business expand?

• factories started using the water wheel to get electricity to their machines

• The automobile helped ship things across the country

• cotton plantations continued to expand into the northern regions of the US

• Lots of coal and iron discovered in the mountains of Appalachia

How did the Bessemer process help Carnegie become an industrialist?

• It helped him make steel cheaply and quickly

• all of the answers

• It gave cities a cheap way to construct new bridges and higher buildings

• Railroads were able to switch over to using steel rails, which were cheaper.

Protective tariffs hurt US industries because they couldn't trade with other countries.

• true

• false

Growing urban populations provided cheap labor and markets for new products.

• ture

• false

Oil had little use, it was actually a nuisance before the industrial revolution in the US.

• true

• false

Lower taxes on businesses helped many industrialists grow in power and wealth.

• true

• false

Railroad owners, like Vanderbilt, were not really liked by farmers because they charged high prices to ship goods to the cities

• true

• false

During the Gilded Age the divide between the have and have nots grew exponentially.

• true

• false

More people were able to find work and have a higher standard of living in the gilded age.

• true

• false

What is the message of this cartoon?

• workers are having a hard time living because they are paid little and have high rents

• workers are wanting to help Pullman expand his business

• Pullman is beating his workers to death

• Pullman is a good boss to the immigrant workers