Explore key developments in industrial history with the 'Invention and Mechanization Test'. This quiz assesses knowledge on impactful inventions like the telegraph, corporations, and business innovations like vertical integration, enhancing understanding of their effects on society and the economy.
Entrepeneur
Reservation
Wounded knee
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Replace steam power with oil power
Spread the use of electricity
Convince individuals to invest in the stock market
Expand the national railroad network
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Reducing the time workers spent commuting to and from work
Providing a large number of well-paying jobs to recent immigrants
Bringing consumers closer to the agricultural regions where their food was grown
Making it easier to move natural resources and finished goods around the country
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Urbanization
Industrialization
Sectional conflict
Westward migration
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Acquiring natural resources
Developing bureaucracies
Hiring blue-collar and white-collar workers
Selling bonds and shares of stock
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Establishment of a system of national parks and forests
Passage of air and water pollution regulations
A push to move factories from cities into suburban areas
An effort to convert from coal power to electricity
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It increased access to popular culture by allowing musicians to record and distribute their music.
It enabled businesses to increase their markets by improving long-distance communication.
It led to the development of suburbs by making jobs outside of the city more plentiful.
It gave ordinary people access to technology that did not require special training to operate.
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A transcontinental railroad was built alongside the town.
A Native American reservation was opened to settlers near the town.
People discovered gold and other precious metals beneath the town.
People used up all the resources surrounding the town.
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The settlers who traveled west on railroads took land that had traditionally belonged to Native Americans.
The opportunities made possible by railroads convinced Native Americans in the West to move to eastern cities.
The immigrants who came to the United States on railroads took away jobs that had previously been given to Native Americans.
The ease of traveling by railroads helped Native Americans more effectively hunt the bison they needed to survive.
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Vertical integration
The assembly line
Bureaucratization
The department store
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Making Native American land ghost towns
Assimilating Native Americas into mainstream society
Pushing Native Americans onto reservations west of the Mississippi River
Encouraging settlers and Native Americans to coexist peacefully
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Individual Native Americans could own and sell plots of reservation land.
European settlers could claim unused land on reservations by farming it for five years.
Individual Native Americans could not own and sell plots of reservation land.
Federal money would be made available to compensate Native Americans for treaty violations.
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Attempts by the Mexican government to reconquer the region
The desire of Mexican Americans to gain independence from the United States
The desire of ranchers to use the land occupied by Mexican Americans
Alliances between Mexican and Native Americans to attack white settlements
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By raising taxes on immigrants from Europe, the federal government attempted to slow population growth east of the Mississippi River.
By making states responsible for funding the construction of railroads and communities, the federal government played a minor role in growth west of the Mississippi River.
By lowering taxes on people who moved from the West to the East, the federal government attempted to encourage growth east of the Mississippi River.
By funding new technologies and providing cheap land, the federal government played a major role in encouraging growth west of the Mississippi River.
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