Urbanization/Industrialization

Why did people move to the cities during the Industrial revolution?

• Jobs in factories

• Family

• Jobs on the farm

• Friends

What is, the change in the US from an agricultural economy to one that produced factory goods ?

• industrialization

• inflation

• colonization

• urbanization

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages

• Dangerous working conditions

• Safe working conditions

• Widespread pollution

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• the steamboat

• the steam engine

• the telegraph machine

• the telephone

_______________ are people who live in a country in which they were not born.

• Pioneers

• Emmigrant

• Native Americans

• Immigrants

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• Telegraph and Morse Code

• electricity

• telephone

• radio

The change from an AGRICULTURAL based society to a CITY based society:

• Urban Sprawl

• Urbanization

• Multiplication

• Industrialization

Monopoly is

• complete control by one company of the production and/or the supply of a good

• negotiations between employers and employees about wages and working conditions

• a form of protest in which workers refuse to work

• fencing-in by landowners of formerly common lands

Which city developed because it specialized in the meat packing industry?

• New Orleans

• Pittsburgh

• Chicago

• Detroit

Which city developed because it specialized in the steel industry?

• Chicago

• New York

• Pittsburgh

• Detroit