Industrial Revolution Unit Test

Which answer choice BEST explains why Americans adopted the electric light bulb quickly?

• The government paid for people to use light bulbs.

• Light bulbs allowed people to work after sundown.

• Candles were running out.

• There were too many fires caused by candles.

Someone who puts money into a business to make a profit

• investor

• refinery

• labor union

• corporation

The telephone and the car were invented in the late 19th century. Yet we still use both of these inventions widely today. What conclusion can you draw from this?

• Inventions from over a century ago are still in use today, even though advances in technology have changed them greatly.

• The original telephone and car from the 19th century were so good that we still use them today.

• Inventions have short lives. We use them for a while, then they disappear.

• People will always use telephones and cars.

Who was the African American scientist from the South who developed many uses for the peanut and sweet potato?

• Lewis Latimer

• Langston Hughes

• Frederick Douglass

• George Washington Carver

Why was the Bessemer process important?

• It made the production of high-quality steel faster and cheaper.

• It was the first major effort to regulate large businesses in the United States.

• It made it possible to process immigrants into the country much faster at Ellis Island.

• It led to the invention of the telephone.

Which answer choice BEST explains how the telephone improved communication?

• It allowed people to speak to each other instantly across great distances.

• Unlike the telegraph, it did not require wires to operate.

• Once cell phone technology appeared, telephone wires became unnecessary.

A business owned by investors

• labor union

• investor

• corporation

• refinery

Which answer choice gives an example of a benefit and a cost of industrial growth?

• Many factories opened in cities and provided jobs to thousands of immigrants. But many of the immigrants lived in crowded, unclean tenements.

• The car made it possible to travel long distances faster than ever before.

• Steel production in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania created pollution.

• By 1920, a majority of Americans lived in urban areas.

Urbanization created crowded, sometimes dirty cities. Assembly line jobs could be repetitive and boring. Steel production sometimes polluted our air and water. These are examples of

• the negative effects of rapid growth.

• the positive effects of rapid growth.

• resistance to immigration.

• the benefits of rapid growth.

By 1920, more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas. What was one explanation of this change?

• Industries tended to develop and grow in key cities. Factories needed large numbers of workers. People moved into the cities to work in those factories.

• Most farmers moved from rural areas into cities, where they bought small plots of land. They grew food for their own families there.

• The government wanted cities to grow, so it paid immigrants from Europe to move into the cities.

• The growth of railroads caused towns to spring up along their routes.