USII.4 Industrialization

The process a country goes through as it shifts from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy based upon higher technology is:

• gentrification

• mechanization

• organization

• industrialization

This is an official document issued by the government giving an inventor the sole right to sell his or her invention.

• certificate

• patent

• code

• diploma

Business leaders formed monopolies mainly to _______. (remember: monopolies are NEVER good for consumers)

• reduce competition from other companies

• make products less expensive for consumers

• increase their profits

• make better products

According to this graph, where did most people live in 1885 in the United States?

• the South

• the North

• the country/farmland

• the cities

According to this graph, around what year did more Americans shift from living in the country to the cities?

• 1905

• 1880

• 1920

• 1945

Why did many people move from rural areas to American cities during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• a drought destroyed many crops in the US

• native American often attacked farm workers

• food is better in cities

• new factories and jobs sprang up in the cities

All of the following conditions contributed to the industrial growth of the U.S. after the Civil War except _

• growing population and new immigrants provided a great workforce

• nation’s vast supply of natural resources

• expanding markets and demand for goods

• nation’s lack of natural resources

This allowed steel to be produced cheaply and contributed to the growing economy of the late 1800s.

• inexpensive coal

• inexpensive iron ore

• the Henderson steel process

• the Bessemer steel process

Telephone inventor.

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

What were advantages of Henry Ford's assembly line system?

• workers got real good at their one or two tasks

• the average person could afford a Herny Ford car

• automobiles were cheaper to produce

• workers often got caught in the assembly line machinery and were torn to pieces