Industry & Immigration: Chapter 11

Most immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s came from:

• Africa

• Asia

• Northwest Europe

• South America

What did Samuel Morse invent?

• telegraph

• telephone

• streetcar

• lightbulb

Julian Sprague's _______________________ replaced horse-drawn carriages and provided passengers with a smoother and faster ride.

• airplane

• railroad car

• automobile

• electric streetcar

True or False: Standard Oil Company became a monopoly because it controlled most of the oil and gas refineries in the United States.

• False

• True

Henry Ford's assemble lines made automobiles more _____________

• expensive

• affordable (cheaper)

• fancy

This man formed labor unions to demand better pay for employees.

• Jacob Riis

• Samuel Gompers

• Henry Ford

• Andrew Carnegie

He wrote news stories that led to laws being passed to improve the lives of immigrants.

• Jacob Riis

• Samuel Gompers

• Nikolas Tesla

• George Washington Carver

True or False? Most immigrants came to the United States because they were escaping oppression or hard times in their home countries.

• True

• False

A well-known immigrant and song-writer who fled Russia as a young boy because of violence against Jewish people was...

• George Washington Carver

• Samuel Morse

• Israel Zangwill

• Irving Berlin

George Shima was known as the "Potato King", became a successful entrepreneur, and became a leader for which group of immigrants?

• German Americans

• Japanese Americans

• Chinese Americans

• African Americans