Industrialization, Urbanization and Reform

How do assembly lines benefit consumers, people who buy things?

• Assembly lines do not benefit consumers.

• Goods can be made quicker and easier, so they cost less.

Instead of slave labor, who worked in factories?

• members of Congress

• immigrants

What invention, created by Samuel Morse, benefited communication?

• telephone

• phonograph

• telegraph

What invention benefited factories by allowing longer working hours?

• light bulb

• airplane

Who worked in factories because jobs were plentiful in urban cities?

• immigrants

• anyone who is a citizen of Canada

What mode of transportation allowed goods to be shipped to the western part of the U.S.?

• transcontinental railroad

• bus

• steam boat

What does Henry Ford have in common with the Wright Brothers?

• Both advanced technologies in transportation

• Both emigrated from England

Alexander Graham Bell is important because he invented the -

• telephone

• telegraph

Who invented the telephone?

• Eli Whitney

• Alexander Graham Bell

The Wright Brothers advanced transportation by inventing the -

• airplan

• train