Industry Test

Which of the factors lead to the urbanization of America:

• Millions of new factory jobs due to industrialization

• Growth of the Railroad Network

• Mechanization of farming

• All the above

Which of these encouraged industrialization to move from the eastern part of the United States to the West?

• Subways

• Muckrakers

• Railroads

• Labor Unions

What is mass production?

• making everyday items bigger

• a system for turning out large numbers of products quickly and cheaply

• small efficient business

• Making good by hand

What invention revolutionized communication in the 19 th century?

• Telephone

• Ink pen

• Newspapers

• Printing press

The Bessemer process was an important technological innovation in

• the harvesting of grain

• meat processing

• the development of electrical power

• the production of steel in a cheap and quicker way

Steel changed people’s lives by making possible the (What could they build?)

• electricity

• Skyscrapers

• establishment of Time zones

• the radio

What role did the federal government play during the Industrial Revolution using laissez-faire policy?

• It funded an extensive system of roads and canals

• It pursued a policy of isolationism toward European politics.

• It encouraged extensive European immigration.

• It generally did not interfere in the economy

A business that has complete control of a service, product, or industry is a what?

• monopoly

• Cartel

• Government

• Corporation

Certain conditions workers faced in growing industries led them to form labor unions. Which of the following conditions was most responsible for the growth of unions?

• Long hours, unsafe workplaces, and low wages in industry

• Women in the workforce

• Lack of skilled jobs in factories

• Violence in the workplace

What condition DID NOT lead to the rise of labor unions

• People only had to work six hours in a day.

• Many factories were nothing more than hot, cramped workshops

• Workers labored in unsafe and unhealthy conditions

• Many workers earned low wages