American Industrialization

American Industrialization

6th - 8th Grade

40 Qs

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American Industrialization

American Industrialization

Assessment

Quiz

Geography, Social Studies, History

6th - 8th Grade

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Created by

C. Mennella-Singleton

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40 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the US economy change after Reconstruction? (5-3.1)

Farmers produced more crops.

Trade was even more important to the US.

The US became a manufacturing and production country.

More people moved to the country because of overcrowding.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did new methods of mass production contribute to the Industrial Revolution?

New products were all made by hand.

Businesses used sharecropping to increase the production of goods.

New products were made quickly and cheaply

Cities became ghost towns because machines replaced manual labor.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which invention, improved by Edison, most changed the way factories operated in the late 19th century?

The refrigerator

The lightbulb

Ford Motor Vehicles

John Deere farm equipment

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What happened as America shifted from an agrarian (farming) nation to an industrial nation?

New technologies helped farm work get done quicker and quicker.

It led to higher crop output.

Many people moved to the cities to make more money.

All of the above

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, improved communication and replaced which of the following?

Skyscraper

Plow

Telegraph

Cell phone

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who made the Bessemer process, which converted iron into steel, popular in the United States?

Lewis Latimer

Thomas Edison

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did electricity change the United States?

Every American could afford electricity for their home.

Electricity was immediately available to all US citizens.

Homes needed more candles because the electricity was not always reliable.

Stores and factories could stay open longer, to make more products and money.

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