Study Guide Fifth Grade: Industrial Revolution

What is Thomas Edison's most famous invention?

• The phonograph

• The telegraph

• The lightbulb

• The cell phone

Who invented America's FIRST working automobile?

• Frank and Charles

  Duryea

• Henry Ford

• Mustang Sally

• Fred Kia

This man taught former slaves new farming methods and is famous for his work with peanuts.

• Mr. Wright

• George Washington Carver

• The Vanderbilt family

• JP Morgan

Who invented the telephone?

• Alexander Hamilton

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Bell South

• Thomas Edison

What did Andrew Carnegie work with?

• He built a huge empire from his work with steel.

• He became wealthy from oil.

• He made his fortune from working with paper.

• He was an inventor.

John D. Rockefeller was famous for _______________.

• His work with steel.

• His work with pipes.

• His work with oil.

• His work with airplanes.

How did the newspaper improve with William Randolph Hearst?

• Pictures were more colorful

• Eye-catching headlines

• Both answers

• Neither of those answers

What is a monopoly?

• leaving a company and starting a new company

• The way you get money.

• A game that we like to play!

• The complete ownership of an entire supply of something.

What do we call the shift from an agricultural society (farming) to an industrial one is called ______________.

• The Revolutionary War

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Renaissance

• The Englightenment

True or False.... Some people's names were changed coming into to Ellis Island.

• True

• False