Industry Expands

By linking the nation, railroads helped increase the size of markets, providing greater opportunities for many...

• industries
• cities
• Native Americans
• insider traders

The typewriter revolutionized industry by

• improving cattle calling

• improving the speed of communications

• improving the cell phone

• improving the quality of steel

In the 1800's the Industrial Revolution led to ___, or the growth of cities due to movement of people from rural areas to cities.

• immigration

• farming

• urbanization

What did the Bessemer process allow Americans to create in the late 1800s?

• railroads

• skyscrapers

• large bridges

• all of them

How did the light bulb change america?

• allows people to work, entertain, amuse, and study longer hours

• sends electricity over long distances

• more jobs for women (operators)

• purifies iron to steel-lightweight skyscrapers

Who investigated the practical use of electricity and invented a scientific light bulb?

• Frederick Taylor

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander G. Bell

Describe three ways that steeled fueled the Industrial revolution:

• suburban homes, ships, and coin

• railroads, vacation homes, and ships

• skyscrapers, bridges, and farming plows

• skyscrapers, vacation homes, and luxory yachts

What invention made possible the growth of railroads?

• the spinning jenny

• the factory

• macadamized roads

• the steam locomotive

Describe three ways that electricity change Americans?

• it powered widgets, computers, and rocket ships

• it powered factories, ships, Luxury yachts

• it powered planes, trains and automobiles

• it powered machines, electric streetcars and manufacturing centers

Inventor of the telephone

• Alexander Hamilton

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone

• Lewis Latimer