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Industrialization

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did the US economy change after Reconstruction? (5-3.1)

a)

Farmers produced more crops.

b)

Trade was even more important to the US.

c)

The US became a manufacturing and production country.

d)

More people moved to the country because of overcrowding.

2.

How did new methods of mass production contribute to the Industrial Revolution?

a)

New products were all made by hand.

b)

Businesses used sharecropping to increase the production of goods.

c)

New products were made quickly and cheaply

d)

Cities became ghost towns because machines replaced manual labor.

3.

Which invention, improved by Edison, most changed the way factories operated in the late 19th century?

a)

The refrigerator

b)

The lightbulb

c)

Ford Motor Vehicles

d)

John Deere farm equipment

4.

How did Orville and Wilbur Wright contribute to the rise of the United States as a world power?

a)

They started the aircraft industry with their experiments in manned flight.

b)

They allowed women to do work usually done by men.

c)

They explored new lands acquired by the US.

d)

They improved the new Model-T vehicle.

5.

What happened as America shifted from an agrarian (farming) nation to an industrial nation?

a)

New technologies helped farm work get done quicker and quicker.

b)

It led to higher crop output.

c)

Many people moved to the cities to make more money.

d)

All of the above

6.

The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, improved communication and replaced which of the following?

a)

Skyscraper

b)

Plow

c)

Telegraph

d)

Cell phone

7.

What impact did availability of electricity have upon the homes in the late 1800s?

a)

It led to the invention of such things as washing machines and vacuum cleaners.

b)

The telegraph became an even more popular device used in more homes.

c)

Fewer homes needed electricity

d)

None of the above

8.

Who made the Bessemer process, which converted iron into steel, popular in the United States?

a)

Lewis Latimer

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

John D. Rockefeller

9.

How did electricity change the United States?

a)

Every American could afford electricity for their home.

b)

Electricity was immediately available to all US citizens.

c)

Homes needed more candles because the electricity was not always reliable.

d)

Stores and factories could stay open longer, to make more products and money.

10.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller developed business practices that let them take total control of a specific industry. This practice was called ______________.

a)

monopoly

b)

technology

c)

labor unions

d)

urbanization

11.

Which of the following identifies the 4 factors of production?

a)

Time, money, workers, technology

b)

Money, Workers, Assembly Line, and Bessemer Process

c)

Workers, Money, Technology, Materials

d)

Materials, Money, Time, Technology

12.

Growth of big business led to all EXCEPT which of the following:

a)

People left cities and began to farm

b)

By 1900, more Americans worked in factories than on farms

c)

Big business created millions of jobs

d)

The US became the world’s leading producer of manufactured goods