Industrial Revolution Test

The period of rapid growth in U.S. manufacturing in the late 1800s is known as:

• The First Industrial Revolution
• The Second Industrial Revolution
• The Assembly Line
• Social Darwinism

Ownership of businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process is known as __________ integration.

• Upward
• Horizontal
• Vertical
• Forward

__________ integration involves owning all businesses in a certain field

• Vertical
• Horizontal
• Lateral
• Downward

The passage of this law made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrained trade.

• Sherman Antitrust Law
• Pro-Labor Law
• Free Market Act
• Open Trade Law

This group pushed for an eight-hour workday, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor.

• Civil Liberties Union
• Knights of Labor
• American Federation of Labor
• American Workers Union

This group, led by Samuel Gompers, organized individual labor unions, such as the mineworkers’ and steelworkers’ unions.

• Knights of Labor
• Civil Liberties Union
• American Federation of Labor
• Workers United

This man and his team of inventors created the electric lightbulb by the end of 1879.

• Andrew Carnegie
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Leland Stanford
• Thomas Edison

Alexander Graham Bell patented the __________ in March 1876.

• Telephone
• Lightbulb
• Telegraph
• Airplane

Inventing the Model T in 1908, this man was the first to implement the moving assembly line.

• John D. Rockefeller
• Henry Ford
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Frederick W. Taylor

A lightweight airplane that used a small, gas-powered engine was developed by the ____________ in 1903.

• Flyboys
• Marx Brothers
• Wright Brothers
• Aviation Association