REVIEW - From Farms to Factories

What was one problem farmers were having in the late 1800s? CHECK ALL THAT APPLY

• Good farming land was becoming scarce

• Railroad companies were gouging farmers

• Crop prices were falling because farmers were planting too many crops

• Farm workers were losing jobs due to the modernization/mechanization of farming

The modernization of farms caused an increase in the population of cities because it........CHECK ALL THAT APPLY

• caused farm owners to start using mechanized equipment, decreasing the need for manual labor

• caused farm workers to lose work and move to urban areas to find jobs

• forced farm owner to go bankrupt and close their farms

• caused farm workers to lose work and move to suburban areas to find jobs

Bimetallism is the belief that paper money should be backed by.

• just gold

• gold and silver

• bronze and gold

• none of the above

If you live in a _______________ area you live in the country.

• Suburban

• Urban

• Rural

• northern

An agrarian society is based on...

• manufacturing

• farming

• mining

• fishing

If you live in a _______________ area you live in the city.

• Urban

• Rural

• Suburban

• Municipal

Which inventor is being discussed here?

Steinmetz, who should be an authority, said ______________ had done more than any other man to promote the art and science of electrical engineering. In his invention of the incandescent lamp and in the perfection of means for developing and distributing electrical energy he literally brought light to the dark places of the earth. Through these and other products of his genius old industrial processes have been revolutionized, new ones developed, and our daily lives have been made easier, our homes pleasanter and more comfortable.

President Calvin Coolidge

October 20, 1928

• Nikola Tesla

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Alva Edison

• Christopher Sholes

It could be deduced here that Nikola Tesla is most likely describing what future invention?

“As soon as completed, it will be possible for a business man in New York to dictate instructions, and have them instantly appear in type at his office in London or elsewhere,”  “He will be able to call up, from his desk, and talk to any telephone subscriber on the globe, without any change whatever in the existing equipment. An inexpensive instrument, not bigger than a watch, will enable its bearer to hear anywhere, on sea or land, music or song, the speech of a political leader, the address of an eminent man of science, or the sermon of an eloquent clergyman, delivered in some other place, however distant. In the same manner any picture, character, drawing or print can be transferred from one to another place. Millions of such instruments can be operated from but one plant of this kind. ” 

-Nikola Tesla.

• Television Networks

• Modern Cell Phone Networks

• Transcontinental Railway Lines

• Transcontinental Telegraph Lines

Match the inventions with their inventor.

• A cheap way to convert iron to steel

• John Froelich

• Telautograph

• Elisha Gray

• Gasoline-powered Tractor

• Henry Bessemer

• Steel Plow

• Cyrus McCormick

• Mechanical Reaper

• John Deere

Match the following inventor to the invention

• Phonograph, Light Bulb, Movie Projector

• Christopher Sholes

• Typewriter

• Edwin Drake

• Telephone

• Nikola Tesla

• Oil Drill

• Thomas Edison

• AC method of distributing electricity

• Alexander Graham Bell