Industrial America Vocab

The shift from farming to an industrial/manufacturing economy is called...

• Manufacturing

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Categorization

The single most important factor in the nations industrial growth was...

• Gasoline

• Henry Ford's Assembly Line

• Edison's Lightbulb

• Railroads

The first railroad that connected the country from the east coast to the west coast was called the...

• Mega Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Vanderbilt Express

• Polar Express

The Transcontinental railroad was finished largely due to the help of...

• Vanderbilt's Money

• Carnegies Attitude

• Immigrant Workers

• A Presidential Pardon

A form of communication created by Samuel Morse that transported over wires with electricity was called...

• The Telegraph

• The Telephone

• The Pony Express

• Email

The telephone or "talking telegraph" was created by...

• Samuel Morse

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Sigmund Frued

• Thomas Edison

The invention of this piece of technology helped create jobs for women in typing pools

• Telephone

• Telegraph

• Gramaphone

• Typewriter

Which major businessman of the American Industrial Revolution was called "the commodore"?

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Scott

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

This major businessman of the American Industrial Revolution created the company "Standard Oil"

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Scott

• John D. Rockefeller

John D. Rockefeller and his company "Standard Oil" created a ______ over the oil industry, meaning he had complete control over the market.

• Monopoly

• Oligarchy

• Economy

• Meritocracy