Introduction to the Industrial Revolution

Identify causes of the US Industrial Revolution

• The growth of railroads

• Pollution

• Available workers

• New inventions and innovation

Identify effects of the US Industrial Revolution

• The agricultural revolution

• The expansion of the middle class

• Dirty and crowded cities

• The US Civil War

The _______ was a technique used during the Industrial Revolution that greatly increased efficiency. It involved the worker or machine completing the same task over and over again as products moved down the line.

• Bessemer Process

• Assembly Line

• Trial and Error Method

• Mechanization

One effect of industrialization in the United States in the late 1800s was the organization of labor unions as a way for workers to gain bargaining power in the workplace. Why did this development often lead to violence?

• Union leaders would not negotiate with factory owners

• Union leaders required US workers to join worldwide strikes

• Government officials used force to bring about better working conditions

• Business owners used force to protect their workplaces from unionization

Who were the people known as "robber barons" by their critics and "captains of industry" by their supporters?

• Industrial workers

• Politicians

• Wealthy businessmen

• Labor union leaders

What word best describes tenement housing (use the picture to help)?

• Comfortable

• Spacious

• Crowded

• Fancy

Powerful companies like Standard Oil that had control over the majority of the industry they were involved in and controlled many businesses related to their own can be called

• Labor Unions

• Monopolies

• Start-ups

• Urbanization

Which of the following was not a new type of transportation developed during the Industrial Revolution?

• airplane

• subway

• streetcar

• steamship

This man created a process that led to the faster, cheaper production of steel

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Bessemer

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Who made their fortune selling luxury train cars and created a town for his employees to live in?

• George Pullman

• J.P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie