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WorksheetsIndustrialization-Urbanization
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
This method of communication became vitally important by the end of the nineteenth century because of its use in coordinating rail travel.
telegraph
telephone
television
Pony Express
Who would have been MOST LIKELY to support and help poor women in major urban areas?
Sarah Winnemucca
Helen Hunt Jackson
Jane Addams
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Positive Outcomes: Created New Jobs, Improved Transportation and Produced new goods.
Negative Outcomes: Loss of Natural Habitat, Pollution, and _____________
Which BEST completes the list?
child labor nations
women in the workforce
poor working conditions
the creation of highways
What challenge of urbanization and industrialization is demonstrated in this photo?
unfair labor practices
inner-city overcrowding
child labor exploitation
racism and discrimination
How did Henry Ford cause a major shift in Americans' living patterns in the early 1900s?
His automobile allowed more people to move into major urban areas.
His automobile allowed people to live further from their place of work.
His methods of production used coal for the first time in human
His work on the first airplane allowed the Wright Brothers to become famous.
Who is known for inventing the telephone?
Thomas Edison
Robert Fulton
Henry Bessemer
Alexander Graham Bell
What resulted from the advances in transportation and industry that occurred in America between the end of the Civil War and 1900?
Thousands of people migrated to the West to escape the segregated South.
Thousands of African-Americans migrated to the South because Reconstruction had ended.
Thousands of people migrated from rural areas to Northern cities like New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.
The U.S. government spent millions of dollars to complete a canal system to link Northern cities to the Mississippi River.
This photograph, taken in an automobile factory in 1913, BEST represents which aspect of specialized labor?
Factory owners planning to expand business.
Workers bargaining at a labor union meeting.
Workers at an assembly line creating car parts.
Consumers selecting a wide variety of products.
Which of these would BEST describe an effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?
farmers worked longer hours
longer factory hours for all workers
railroad companies expanded routes
all people were put in the same time zone
How did American industrial leaders earn great wealth during the late 1800s?
by forming labor unions for workers
by using mainly slave or forced labor
by developing new farming techniques
by creating monopolies and establishing trusts
· Mechanical reaper
· Cotton gin
· Combine harvester
Which sector of the American economy was revolutionized by these technological breakthroughs?
agriculture
manufacturing
communications
transportation
The process of using machines to make work easier and more efficient is known as __________.
agriculture
mobilization
mechanization
transportation
Which group was MOST concerned with helping improve the dangerous working conditions in early-20th century industry?
Populists
Robber Barron
Progressives
Radical Republicans
Which fact would make the BEST evidence to support the statement that "Thomas Edison's most important invention was the light bulb"?
The light bulb reduced the crime rate in many urban areas.
Americans gained control over light in homes and offices, independent of the time of day.
Thomas Edison also invented the phonograph, the motion picture, and the stock ticker.
The light bulb was first tested by Thomas Edison in 1879; he patented the invention in 1880
What was caused by low wages, poor working conditions, and long hours that stemmed from industrialization?
These issues caused businesses to hire more immigrants.
These issues caused more businesses to move their factories to other countries.
These issues caused a large growth in immigrants coming to America.
These issues caused a reform movement that included the passage of laws and regulations for businesses.
Which of these played the BIGGEST role in increased urbanization in the late 1800s?
transportation improved
no one was farming anymore
the military was stronger
steam power was discovered
Andrew Carnegie brought the Bessemer process to the U.S. What did this process do?
It helped convert the telegraph into the telephone.
It helped to create iron.
It helped to create steel.
It helped create an assembly line.
What were the major developments that promoted the industrial revolution in the U.S.?
Mass production
Railroad
New inventions
All of the above
Inventors and scientists contributed to the Industrial Revolution in the United States and helped the U.S. to become _____?
Country of the Year
A leading industrial power in the world
The country with the most inventors and scientists
The solution to world hunger
The Wright Brothers started the _____________________________.
Textile industry
Oil industry
Railroad industry
Aircraft industry
Because of mechanization, farmers were able to produce more crops. What effect did this have on the crop’s prices?
Farmers were able to charge more money for their crops.
Farmers were forced to charge less money for their crops.
There was no change in the price of crops.
None of the above
A monopoly is complete control over an industry. Which industry did Rockefeller monopolize?
steel
coal
oil
grain
This picture represents an issue that was dealt with MOST successfully by which political movement?
Democrat
Populist
Republican
Progressive
What was caused by low wages, poor working conditions, and long hours that stemmed from industrialization?
These issues caused businesses to hire more immigrants.
These issues caused a large growth in immigrants coming to America.
These issues caused more businesses to move their factories to other countries.
These issues caused a reform movement that included the passage of laws and regulations for businesses.
Which area on the map of the United States had the greatest urban population at the start of the Twentieth Century?
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B
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