WorksheetsRise of Industry - Sections 1-5
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
This is the growth in new technologies and manufacturing during the late 18th and early 19th century
Mass production
Laissez-Faire
Urbanization
Industrial Revolution
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Labor Union
Mass Production
Monopoly
Urbanization
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Labor Union
Trust
Entrepreneur
Corporation
A company that controls all production and sales of a product is called a
Laissez-Faire
Business Giant
Corporation
Monopoly
A trust is...
an individual that controls all production and sales of a particular product or service.
a business that is owned by many investors.
a company that had eliminated competition by buying up all of its rivals.
a group of corporations run by a single board of directors.
During the Gilded Age many capitalists lived like royalty while
workers lived in poverty
workers were beginning to enter the middle class
workers were given huge raises
workers were sent to unpaid labor camps
This Industrialist ended up controlling almost 90% of the US Oil Refining industry in the US.
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Madam CJ Walker
Thomas Edison
Why are monopolies bad for the economy?
They do not make improvements to products without competition
They do not have fair prices because there is no competition
Both A and B
None of the above
Which application of a new technology can attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?
Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances
Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night
Diesel engines were used in production of airplanes
Sonar technology was used to track submarines
The inventor who created the telephone was
Andrew Carnegie.
Alexander Graham Bell.
Thomas Edison.
Henry Bessemer.
What is the connection between industrialization and urbanization?
Factories were built in rural areas where land was cheap, so people moved to the countryside.
The growth of cities slowed down because of a labor shortage in the factories.
People looking for jobs flocked to the cities, where most of the new industries were.
City leaders banned new factories until industries solved the pollution problems they caused.
What were working conditions like during the Industrial Revolution? Mark all that apply.
Safe
Low wages
Children working
Fire danger
Fire in 1911 that kills 144 workers that helps change fire safety laws in New York and across the United States.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
The Haymarket Riot
The Homestead Strike
The Red Rising
Which words describe the tenements where about two-thirds of New Yorkers lived?
bright and airy
unclean and dangerous
spacious and new
trendy and sophisticated
Which is the rural place?
Which is the urban place?
How did the role of women change in factories during the American Industrial Revolution?
Women started working in textile mills and other industrial settings.
Women were not allowed to work in factories
Women became factory owners and managers
Women became farmers and left the factories
This photograph shows a device that was introduced in the 1970s.
How has the use of the device shown in this photograph affected business in the United States?
By improving the efficiency of making purchases
By lowering the quality of merchandise
By increasing the time needed to produce goods
By decreasing the number of imported products
