Gilded Age Industrialization

Which of the following helped the U.S. to industrialize after the Civil War?

• Abundance of natural resources

• Immigration and a growing workforce

• Free enterprise economic conditions

Where did workers move to during the Second Industrial Revolution?

• farms

• cities

• other countries

What is the significance of the transcontinental railroad.

• It connected the West to the country by rail.

• It ended the need for horse-drawn vehicles.

• It isolated the new states west of the Rocky Mountains.

Corporations are owned by

• government.

• shareholders (or stockholders).

Horizontal integration was a business organization that was formed when a large business

• bought or merged with smaller companies to control the market.

• sold off all their assets and gave the profits to the poor.

• spread out their locations across the United States.

• refused to hire workers who were on strike.

Which inventor created a way for trains to use the telegraph for communication?

• Thomas Edison

• Granville Woods

• Geroge Westinghouse

• Elijah McCoy

Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. Who made the long-lasting filament that made the lightbulb more affordable?

• Thomas Edison

• Lewis Latimer

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

What is an economic system (like the U.S. has) with little or no government regulation called?

• laissez-faire free enterprise

• government-run socialism

• Americanization

• democracy

What were two of the goals of labor unions in their early years?

• higher pay

• election day off

• higher corporate taxes

• improved working conditions

Factories could be dangerous places because of the lack of safety equipment.

• True

• False