USH Industrialization

Industrialization changed the way people lived and worked.

• True

• False

What were some changes in America after the Civil War?

(you can select more than one answer)

• Americans leave farms to work in factories

• Factories use advanced machinery

• America’s GNP was 8x greater

• Factories take over for small workshops

Natural Resources in the American West:

(you can select more than one answer)

• Timber & Coal

• Water & Air

• Iron & Copper

• Dirt

• Petroleum

_________ immigrants came to the US between 1870 and 1910

• 15+ million

• 17+ million

• 17+ billion

• 510,000

Who invented the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• George Westinghouse

• Nicola Tesla

Thomas Edison invented the _______ & _______.

• Lightbulb

• Telephone

• Electric Generator

• Air-Brake System

The air-brake system for trains allowed them to _______

• travel backwards

• brake slower

• travel at faster speeds safely

Technology after the Civil War

• didn't improve anything

• made life worse

• changed the way people lived

• made life just how it is today in 2022

Laissez-Faire

• Idea that the government should have complete control

• "let the government do as they please"

• "Let the people do as they please"

• Idea that the government should not interfere in the economy

Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act allowed two corporations to construct the transcontinental railroad. What where these two corporations called?

• Union Pacific

• Central Atlantic

• Central Pacific

• Labor Pacific