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Second Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the period in the late 1800s when US manufacturing experienced rapid growth?

a)

Industrial Revolution

b)

American Revolution

c)

Second Industrial Revolution

d)

Scientific Revolution

2.

Who invented a quicker and cheaper way to make steel?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Henry Bessemer

c)

George Pullman

d)

Nikolaus Otto

3.

Who designed railroad passenger and sleeping cars to make travel more comfortable?

a)

George Pullman

b)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

c)

Nikolaus Otto

d)

Wilbur Wright

4.

Who was the railroad owner who consolidated smaller railroads companies and improved railroad services?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

George Pullman

c)

George Westinghouse

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

5.

What is cooking, heating, and lighting fuel made by refining crude oil?

a)

kerosene

b)

patent

c)

bessemer

d)

gasoline

6.

What is an exclusive right to make or sell an invention?

a)

kerosene

b)

patent

c)

gasoline

d)

bessemer

7.

Who created a workable electric light bulb?

a)

Thomas Alva Edison

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Henry Bessemer

d)

George Westinghouse

8.

Who patented the telephone?

a)

Henry Bessemer

b)

George Pullman

c)

Thomas Alva Edison

d)

Alexander Graham Bell

9.

Who created an engine powered by gasoline?

a)

Nikolaus Otto

b)

Thomas Alva Edison

c)

Edwin Drake

d)

Orville Wright

10.

Who designed and built a gasoline powered airplane?

a)

Duryea Brothers

b)

Wright Brothers

c)

Orville Brothers

d)

Westinghouse Brothers

11.

This helped US steel production grow

a)

kerosene porcess

b)

air brakes

c)

Bessemer process

d)

West process

12.

Railroad travel became safer with improvements to...

a)

consolidation

b)

lightbulbs

c)

kerosene

d)

air brakes

13.

Who discovered how to refine crude oil into kerosene?

a)

Benjamin Silliman, Jr.

b)

Edwin Drake

c)

George Westinghouse

d)

George Pullman

14.

Who proved that oil could be pumped from the ground?

a)

Benjamin Silliman, Jr.

b)

Edwin Drake

c)

Nikolaus Otto

d)

Cornelius Vnaderbilt

15.

Who built the first practical automobile in the US?

a)

Wright brothers

b)

Orville Brothers

c)

Drake brothers

d)

Duryea brothers