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Industrial Revolution

Quiz by Jessica Thomas

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  • Q1
    How did inventions during the 1800s and early 1900s change people's lives?
    Businesses did not grow during this time
    They could do more work in less time
    Inventions did not change people's lives
    It took people more time to do things
    30s
  • Q2
    Thomas Edison invented many new things. One of them was the
    internet
    electric light bulb
    cotton gin
    airplane
    30s
  • Q3
    Which groups of people made major contributions in the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
    Japanese and Italians
    Chinese and Irish
    Russian and Germans
    Native Americans
    30s
  • Q4
    In 1876, ___________ invented the telephone
    Samuel Morse
    Thomas Edison
    Bell South
    Alexander Graham Bell
    30s
  • Q5
    Which invention made it possible for factories and shops to stay open at night?
    the model T automobile
    the electric lightbulb
    the radio
    the typewriter
    30s
  • Q6
    Samuel Morse invented the ___________, a way of carrying messages along wires
    telegraph
    phonograph
    typewriter
    telephone
    30s
  • Q7
    Which of the following was a characteristic of the Industrial Revolution
    Many people moved from the cities to farms
    The US was mostly a nation of farmers
    Goods were being made in factories instead of homes
    Workers produced fewer goods
    30s
  • Q8
    Henry Bessemer used iron ore, limestone, and coal to make steel. These are examples of __________
    capital resources
    school resources
    natural resources
    human resources
    30s
  • Q9
    Which of the following best describes the free enterprise system?
    Business owners decide what to produce and how much to charge without giving government control.
    Consumers have few choices about where they can buy goods.
    The government owns all the business and land.
    There is no competition between the businesses.
    30s
  • Q10
    How did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company become a monopoly?
    It bought small companies to reduce competition
    It sold parts of the company to other people
    It paid factory workers lots of money
    It sold all of its' big US companies
    30s
  • Q11
    Andrew Carnegie is known for which of the following?
    building oil refineries
    inventing a new method for making steel
    building a huge steel empire
    building the Westinghouse Electric Company
    30s
  • Q12
    Why did Alexander Graham Bell's telephone company supple service to many cities but to few rural areas in the 1890s?
    The phone lines could not reach that far
    It cost too much to supply telephone service to rural areas
    No one lived in the rural areas
    People in the rural areas did not need to use the telephone
    30s
  • Q13
    Which of the following promoted the early 1900s Industrial Revolution
    cotton gin and railroads
    computers and the internet
    light bulbs and telephones
    television and radios
    30s

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