Industrialization and Innovation Change the U.S. Economy

Choose the correct definition of erosion.

• the transmission of disease to a previously unexposed population

• the wearing away of rock, land, soil or a physical feature by the action of wind, water, or ice

• the choking out of many native plants by weeds

• the destruction of many trees for the creation of large farms

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined.

a new idea, improvement, or method

• population

• innovation

• education

• entertainment

someone who owns their own animals, equipment, and supplies, but rents land from a landowner and pays the landowner back by giving up a share of the harvest

• scalawag

• opportunist

• indentured laborer

• tenant farmer

Choose the correct definition of sharecropper.

• a farmer who lives on his or her own land but rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land for someone else

• a farmer who only grows crops and does not raise animals

• a farmer who sells a share of his or her crops and keeps the rest to feed his or her family

• a farmer who lives on land owned by someone else, rents animals, equipment, and supplies to farm the land, and pays the landowner back with a large share of the harvest

Read the definition. Then choose the vocabulary term defined.

the widespread development of industry

• immigration

• overpopulation

• industrialization

• diversification

Choose the correct word or phrase to complete the dictionary entry.

urbanization

the development of an area to gain more attributes of a _______________ , including a higher population.

• Country

• County

• City

• Countryside

Match the location next to the correct description.

Site or first manned aircraft flight.

• Chicago, IL

• Kitty Hawk, NC

• Pittsburg, PA

Match the location next to the correct description.

Center of U.S. steel production starting in the mid 1800s.

• Chicago, IL

• Kitty Hawk, NC

• Pittsburg, PA

Match the location next to the correct description.

Midwestern city near the Great Lakes that became a center for shipping and transportation.

• Chicago, IL

• Kitty Hawk, NC

• Pittsburg, PA

Why was Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, chosen by the Wright Brothers as a test site for their flying machine?

• It was a one-day train ride from their home in Ohio.

• The isolated location was easy to keep secret from the press.

• It was known for its strong winds.

• The Wright family had a winter home in Kitty Hawk.