Unit 4 - Industrialization Review

What factors led to an industrial boom in the United States? (SELECT ALL)

• wealth of natural resources

• government support for business

• growing urban population for cheap labor

• growing urban population for market for new products

What would be the best way to describe an entrepreneur? 

• Business owner who invests money to make money

• labor

• a worker who make a wage

• assembly line worker

What products were made out of oil? (SELECT ALL)

• Kerosene

• gasoline

• coal

• olive oil

Aside from oil, what other TWO natural resources were abundantly discovered in the late 1800s?

• vibranium

• natural gas

• iron

• coal

What process was used to turn iron into steel?

• Steel Process

• Drake Process

• Bessemer Process

• Edison Process

What two major inventions did Thomas Edison get credit for?

• telephone

• electrical system

• incandescent light bulb

• refining oil

Electricity did not affect manufacturing factories.

• true

• false

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• telephone

• telegraph

• light bulb

• typewriter

The telephone and typewriter had a major impact in pushing women into the workforce.

• true

• false

What TWO major structures in the late 1800s were made out of steel?

• telegraph

• bridges

• skyscrapers

• canals