An Explosion of Industrial Growth

Which two factors helped fuel the expansion of American industry in the late 1800s?

• Technological innovation and communication networks

• Agricultural development and steam engines

• Immigration and gold mining

• Military expansion and colonization

What did companies do to meet the demands of the growing national market in the late 1800s?

• Companies developed new ways of operating.

• Companies reduced their workforce to save costs.

• Companies stopped expanding to new regions.

• Companies focused only on local markets.

The expansion of American industry in the late 1800s was helped by technological innovation and the creation of communication and electric power networks.

• True

• False

What is one method that engineers used to increase factory productivity?

• Interchangeable parts

• Decreasing worker wages

• Increasing factory size

• Reducing product quality

Who watched workers and timed them with a stopwatch to determine the most efficient way to perform each task?

• Henry Ford

• Frederick W. Taylor

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

Henry Ford pioneered the moving ________ to mass-produce automobiles.

• assembly line

• engine

• factory

• wheel

Increased productivity resulted in cheaper goods, but it also meant that a factory could operate with ________ workers.

• fewer

• more

• older

• skilled

Engineers reorganized factory work to increase productivity by dividing up the production process so that each worker did a ________ task.

• single

• random

• complex

• shared

According to the passage, what are the three basic factors of production needed by businesses as they grow larger?

• Land, labor, and capital

• Money, machines, and management

• Land, technology, and capital

• Labor, management, and money

As businesses grew larger, their need for the three basic factors of production—______, labor, and capital—increased as well.

• land

• money

• technology

• transportation