Industrialization, Urbanization,

Oil industry

• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Abraham Lincoln

Steel industry

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Who greatly expanded the American railroad system?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Who invented the telephone?

• Nikola Tesla

• Alexander Graham Bell

• The Wright Brothers

• Karl Marx

Who invented the airplane?

• Alexander Graham Bell
• George Washington Carver
• Thomas Edison
• Wright Brothers

Which of the following are TRUE about conditions workers faced in the Industrial Era? Select all that apply

• children as young as 4 years old were put to work

• employers created safe and sanitary environments

• there were no minimum wage laws & pay was often too low to live on

• 12-16 hour work days were often required

• employers were usually very willing to negotiate with workers to make conditions better

____________ are groups of workers that ban together to fight for better working conditions.

During labor strikes the government was often called in to take charge. Who did the government most often side with?

• Business Owners

• Labor Unions

seekers of new business opportunities

• capital

• cottage industry

• entrepreneurs

• spinning jenny

money supply

• capital

• cottage industry

• socialism

• spinning jenny