Unit 2 New Tech. Quiz

How can American society best be described during the Gilded Age?

• The large majority of Americans are involved in business ownership and are very wealthy

• There is a small number of very wealthy millionaires, however many citizens also live in poverty

• Huge numbers of American citizens are immigrating to Europe to seek new opportunities

• There is an equal number of wealthy and poor citizens

This Scottish immigrant invented the telephone in 1876

• Andrew Carnegie

• Domingo Ghirardelli

• Levi Strauss

• Alexander Graham Bell

In the late 1800s, which factor directly contributed to the growth of the American steel industry?

• Government regulation

• Employee ownership

• new production techniques like the Bessemer Process

• the formation of labor unions

How did Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb impact factories?

• Machines needed to be repaired less frequently.

• Products could be manufactured on an assembly line.

• Businesses needed to hire skilled workers.

• Factories could extend working hours into the night.

One factor that promoted industrialization in the United States in the late nineteenth century was the

• deveIopment of the airplane

• expansion of the railroads

• mass production of automobiles

• widespread use of steamboats

process which made steel more affordable and profitable

• Gospel of Wealth
• Bessemer Process
• Smelting
• Monopoly

Which development allowed people to live further away from their job?

• Mass transit like subways

• Construction of suspension bridges

• The formation of Monopolies

• Laissez Faire economics

During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:

• crowded, run down, and filthy

• beautiful and new

• spacious

• the most expensive

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

In what way did the successful drilling for oil in 1859 contribute to the economic development of the United States in the nineteenth century?

• Electricity became available in rural areas of the Midwest.

• Railroads converted from steam power to diesel power.

• Farmers began using gas-powered mechanical reapers.

• Petroleum products like kerosene supplied lamps for light.