Industrial Revolution and American Expansion Quiz

What process marked the first inexpensive way to mass-produce steel from molten pig iron?

• The Bessemer process

• The smelting process

• The casting process

• The forging process

What term describes the period of rapid standardization and industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

• The Great Leap Forward

• The Second Industrial Revolution

• The Industrial Boom

• The Manufacturing Age

Who invented improvements to the steam engine that helped start the First Industrial Revolution?

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• James Watt

• George Stephenson

What was "Seward's Folly"?

• The Panama Canal project

• The Hawaiian annexation

• The purchase of Alaska from Russia

• The Philippines occupation

Who was the last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom?

• Queen Liliuokalani

• King Kamehameha

• Queen Victoria

• Princess Ka'iulani

What poem by Rudyard Kipling discussed American control of the Philippines?

• The Road to Manila

• The White Man's Burden

• Imperial Dream

• The Colonial Path

What invention allowed for instant long-distance communication?

• The radio

• The telephone

• The phonograph

• The telegraph

What was the conflict between the United States and Spain in 1898?

• The Mexican-American War

• The Civil War

• The Spanish-American War

• The Philippine War

What document defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. relations after the Spanish-American War?

• The Monroe Doctrine

• The Roosevelt Corollary

• The Panama Treaty

• The Platt Amendment

What theory applied biological concepts to sociology and economics?

• Natural Selection

• Social Darwinism

• Evolution Theory

• Survival Theory