Chapter 14.1 Quiz

After the Civil War, the United States was still largely an _________ nation.

• Industrial

• Agricultural

• Anonymous

In the 1840s, Americans began using this

to light lamps after the Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner discovered

how to distill the fuel from oil or coal.

• diesel fuel

• wood

• kerosene

• petroleum

It wasn't until 1859, however, when Edwin L. Drake successfully used a

________ to drill for ______ near Titusville, Pennsylvania, that removing it from

beneath the earth's surface became practical.

• steam engine, oil

• shovel, oil

• electric auger, gas

• steam engine, coal

But after this became popular,

gasoline became the most important form of oil.

• lawn mowers

• steam engine

• automobile

• trains

Removing this from iron pro-duces a lighter, more flexible, and rust-resistant metal—steel.

• the dioxide

• the carbon

• the impurities

By 1880, American manufacturers were using the new method to produce more than _______ of the nation's steel.

• 99 percent

• 70 percent

• 50 percent

• 90 percent

William Le Baron Jenney designed the Home Insurance Building in Chicago with a steel frame—the....

• the first building in chicago

• the first office building

• the first skyscraper

• the first insurance building

Edison and Westinghouse made electricity

• more powerful and less expensive

• ubiquitous and slightly more expensive

• safer and less expensive

• for everycitizen

Electricity made the Industrial Revolution possible because of all of the following reasons EXCEPT

• robber barons were able to store it and sell it at a cheaper price

• electric power ran numerous machines

• spurred the invention of time-saving appliances

• electric streetcars made

  urban travel cheap

How did the typewriter and telephone change the roles of women in society?

• They could finally talk to their friends

• They could officially GHOST their potential suitors

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