Ch 19 Review--Industrial Revolution

The fast-growing national rail system encouraged the expansion of the

(a)  

• economy.
• electorate.

• patent system.

• Oregon Trail.

The practice of combining separate companies in an industry is called a

• rebate

• monopoly.

• consolidation.

• philanthropy.

The inventor of the railroad sleeping car was (a)   .

• Eli H. Janney.
• Gustavus Swift.
• Henry Ford.
• George M. Pullman.

Who linked the United States and Europe with a transatlantic telegraph line?

(a)  

• George Eastman

• Cyrus Field
• Edwin L. Drake

• Thomas Edison

Whose shoe-making machine performed many steps previously done by hand?

• Lewis H. Latimer

• John Thurman

• Jan E. Matzeliger

• Christopher Sholes

Which inventor discovered the electric lightbulb?

(a)  

• Thomas Edison
• Granville Woods

• Henry Ford

• George Eastman

The combining of companies is called (a)  

• dividends.
• shareholders.
• corporations.
• mergers.

Who was the steel company owner who was also a great philanthropist?

• Granville Woods

• Gustavus Swift

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cyrus Field

Who invented the telephone?

(a)  

• George Westinghouse

• Thomas Edison

• Cyrus Field

• Alexander Graham Bell

The United States Attorney General Richard Olney ordered an injunction to stop the (a)  

• Pullman Railroad Strike.
• Railroad Strike of 1877.
• Haymarket Riot.
• Homestead Strike.