INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION STUDY GUIDE

Which is NOT one of the challenges faced by urban areas as a result of population and technological changes?

Fewer workers were available for factory jobs.

Which business leader founded Standard Oil Company?

John D. Rockefeller

3. Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell were both inventors of the late 19th century. Which of the following is true about their inventions since that time?

Many improvements have been made to the inventions.

In what way did the telephones affect life in the 1800s?

People were pleased to be able to communicate without having to travel.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. Prior to that time, the fastest way to send a message was by:

Telegraph

Which of the following describes a free enterprise system?

Business owners can decide what to produce and how much to charge for products orservices.

What was one result of rapid industrialization and urbanization?

Cities became overcrowded.

Airplane manufacturing became the country's leading industry between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, leading to the rise of new industries

False

Goods were less expensive to buy than ever before, giving people greater access to all kinds of goods.

False

People on farms and ranches made almost everything they needed by hand in the late 1880s giving people greater access to all kinds of goods.

False

Which of the following best describes how railroads helped the United States economy grow?

They helped businesses reach distant markets.

Entrepreneurs built power stations to bring electricity to cities between the late 1800s and the early 1900s, leading to the rise of new industries.

True

Stores increased in number, and mail-order businesses were established in the late 1880s giving people greater access to all kinds of goods.

True

Andrew Carnegie is known for which of the following?

building a huge steel empire

Which of the following innovations made it possible for Thomas Edison to patent his incandescent light bulb in 1880?

electricity

The Statue of Liberty is located in New York Harbor, which means it was usually the first to be seen by which immigrants coming to America?

immigrants arriving from Europe.

Which of the following represents an invention that changed transportation at the turn of the twentieth century?

the electric streetcar

Which of the following was another invention of Thomas Edison?

the phonograph

More goods were being invented and produced in the late 1880s, giving people greater access to all kinds of goods.

true