Notes Checkpoint Quiz

What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

• Electricity

• Railroad

• Telephone

• Oil refining

What innovation contributed to the rapid industrialization (growth of factories) in the United States?

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

What is one positive aspect of laissez-faire politics?

• Immigrants were exploited by political machines.

• Entrepreneurs started businesses without government interference.

• American workers formed labor unions.

• Many immigrants lived in tenements.

What idea is the cartoon addressing?

• Monopoly

• Laissez Faire

• Americanization

• Industrial Revolution

What factor most led to the growth of the steel industry?

• Laissez faire economics

• New production techniques

• Labor unions

• The need for a new building material

The title given to people like Carnegie, who invested their money to start businesses such as his steel monopoly, is?

• Entrepreneurs

• Nativists

• Philanthropists

• Populists

Which technological development most revolutionized the US steel industry?

• Electrification

• Vulcanization

• Steam power

• Bessemer Process

What is a Laissez-Faire economy?

• An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy where there is very little involvement by the U.S. government
• An economy that is controlled by another country

Which immigrant is credited with the invention of the light bulb?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

Industry caused urbanization because...

• People moved out of cities in order to find jobs.

• People moved to cities because that's where jobs were.

• Cities were very appealing to people who grew up in rural areas.

• The railroad allowed people to move East easier.