U.S. History: The Expansion Of Industry
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This quiz covers post civil war America's industry expansion. Inventions and inventors of this time period are included.
- 1.The first person to use a steam engine to drill for oil.
- A.
Mr. Mattox
- B.
Edwin L. Drake
- C.
Alexander Graham Bell
- D.
George Bessemer
- E.
Thomas Alva Edison
- 2.The inventor of the telephone.
- A.
T. La Fone
- B.
Thomas Edison
- C.
Thomas Morse
- D.
Alexander Graham Bell
- E.
All of the above
- 3.The technique used to make steel from iron.
- 4.The law granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities.
- 5.Christopher Sholes invented:
- A.
The typewriter.
- B.
Sandals that exercise your feet.
- C.
Gasoline engine.
- D.
Telegraph.
- 6.Which of the following is NOT a cause of the technological advances after the civil war?
- A.
A large supply of natural resources.
- B.
An explosion of inventions.
- C.
A growing city population that wanted the new products.
- D.
Gold and silver were plentiful.
- 7.What was a by product of oil when it was first being used to light lamps?
- 8.What is the name of the product made from oil that was used to light lamps?
- 9.What is the element that is removed from iron to make it lighter and more flexible?
- 10.Henry Bessemer invented a process that turned iron into what?
- 11.The invention of the light bulb is credited to:
- 12.The railroad that was built to cross the entire country was called:
- 13.What is the name of the court case that gave government the right to regulate private industry.
- 14.What were some results of the transcontinental railway being built?
- A.
Many workers died.
- B.
New cities and towns sprang up across the country.
- C.
Trade increased.
- D.
Time zones were instituted.
- E.
All of the above.
- 15.The theory that taught that only the strong survived is called:
- A.
Monopoly
- B.
Trust
- C.
Social Darwinism
- D.
Horizontal integration
- E.
Vertical integration.
- 16.A monopoly is:
- A.
A game that takes hours to play.
- B.
Situation in which one company controls an entire industry.
- C.
When companies who produce similar products merge.
- D.
When someone buys out companies that supply the raw materials.
- E.
None of the above.
- 17.Horizontal consolidation is when
- 18.Vertical integration was when:
- 19.The Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry was:
- A.
John D. Rockefeller
- B.
Joseph Darwin
- C.
Thomas Edison
- D.
Andrew Carnegie
- E.
None of the above.
- 20.A system in which different companies agreed to work together as a large corporation. In this system, the companies then split the profits earned.
- A.
A trust.
- B.
A monopoly.
- C.
A boom.
- D.
A holding company.
- E.
All of the above.
- 21.Which is not a reason that the South had little to no industrial growth at this time?
- A.
The region was still recovering from the Civil war.
- B.
Many Southerners refused to invest their money in businesses in the South after the war.
- C.
Most Southerners who tried to start businesses had difficulty overcoming economic obstacles.
- D.
Southern businesses could not compete with Northern companies which were already well established.
- E.
Southerners are just lazy as evidence in their southern drawl accent.
- 22.Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor?
- A.
Samuel Gompers
- B.
George Bush
- C.
Andrew Carnegie
- D.
John D. Rockefeller
- E.
Samuel Clemens
- 23.Because of poor working conditions, workers began to form groups to advocate for them. These groups are known as:
- 24.When workers went on strike to protest poor working conditions, owners hired replacement workers called:
- 25.One who leaves a country to settle in another country is called:
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