WorksheetsSecond Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the period in the late 1800s when US manufacturing experienced rapid growth?
Industrial Revolution
American Revolution
Second Industrial Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Who invented a quicker and cheaper way to make steel?
John D. Rockefeller
Henry Bessemer
George Pullman
Nikolaus Otto
Who designed railroad passenger and sleeping cars to make travel more comfortable?
George Pullman
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Nikolaus Otto
Wilbur Wright
Who was the railroad owner who consolidated smaller railroads companies and improved railroad services?
Alexander Graham Bell
George Pullman
George Westinghouse
Cornelius Vanderbilt
What is cooking, heating, and lighting fuel made by refining crude oil?
kerosene
patent
bessemer
gasoline
What is an exclusive right to make or sell an invention?
kerosene
patent
gasoline
bessemer
Who created a workable electric light bulb?
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Bessemer
George Westinghouse
Who patented the telephone?
Henry Bessemer
George Pullman
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Who created an engine powered by gasoline?
Nikolaus Otto
Thomas Alva Edison
Edwin Drake
Orville Wright
Who designed and built a gasoline powered airplane?
Duryea Brothers
Wright Brothers
Orville Brothers
Westinghouse Brothers
This helped US steel production grow
kerosene porcess
air brakes
Bessemer process
West process
Railroad travel became safer with improvements to...
consolidation
lightbulbs
kerosene
air brakes
Who discovered how to refine crude oil into kerosene?
Benjamin Silliman, Jr.
Edwin Drake
George Westinghouse
George Pullman
Who proved that oil could be pumped from the ground?
Benjamin Silliman, Jr.
Edwin Drake
Nikolaus Otto
Cornelius Vnaderbilt
Who built the first practical automobile in the US?
Wright brothers
Orville Brothers
Drake brothers
Duryea brothers
