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Smith Unit 5 Quick Check #1 Big Business, Monopolies &Technology

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Social Studies

11th Grade

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Smith Unit 5 Quick Check #1 Big Business, Monopolies &Technology
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did American industrial leaders accumulate wealth during the late 1800s?

by inventing new technology
by developing new farming techniques
by using mainly slave or forced labor
by creating monopolies and establishing trusts

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What industry contributed to rapid growth in the steel and oil industries and also connected all parts of the nation for easy trading?

Automobile
Electrical Power
Coal
Railroad

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which Scottish immigrant became a billionaire during the Second Industrial Revolution by introducing the Bessemer process to mass-produce steel and vertically integrating the steel industry?

Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Clay Frick
John Jacob Astor

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Bessemer process achieve?

created electric power to streetcars
allowed meat to be processed and refrigerated
more efficiently converted iron to steel
allowed telegraphs to travel faster and farther distances

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This man owned Standard Oil and controlled 90% of the oil industry during the Gilded Age.

Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
JP Morgan

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company achieved financial success by

promoting a diverse working environment by hiring large numbers of African Americans and women
building factories outside of the United States to take advantage of less restrictive labor laws
controlling all aspects of production, from the acquisition of raw materials to the sale of finished products
attracting government investment by producing a good that was essential to the economy of the United States

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these would BEST describe an immediate effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?

time became standardized
farmers worked longer hours in the fields
railroad companies expanded routes
longer factory hours for all workers

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