Industrialization-Urbanization

This method of communication became vitally important by the end of the nineteenth century because of its use in coordinating rail travel.

• telegraph

• telephone

• television

• Pony Express

Who would have been MOST LIKELY to support and help poor women in major urban areas?

• Sarah Winnemucca

• Helen Hunt Jackson

• Jane Addams

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Positive Outcomes: Created New Jobs, Improved Transportation and Produced new goods.

Negative Outcomes: Loss of Natural Habitat, Pollution, and _____________

Which BEST completes the list?

• child labor nations

• women in the workforce

• poor working conditions

• the creation of highways

What challenge of urbanization and industrialization is demonstrated in this photo?

• unfair labor practices

• inner-city overcrowding

• child labor exploitation

• racism and discrimination

How did Henry Ford cause a major shift in Americans' living patterns in the early 1900s?

• His automobile allowed more people to move into major urban areas.

• His automobile allowed people to live further from their place of work.

• His methods of production used coal for the first time in human

• His work on the first airplane allowed the Wright Brothers to become famous.

Who is known for inventing the telephone?

• Thomas Edison

• Robert Fulton

• Henry Bessemer

• Alexander Graham Bell

What resulted from the advances in transportation and industry that occurred in America between the end of the Civil War and 1900?

• Thousands of people migrated to the West to escape the segregated South.

• Thousands of African-Americans migrated to the South because Reconstruction had ended.

• Thousands of people migrated from rural areas to Northern cities like New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh.

• The U.S. government spent millions of dollars to complete a canal system to link Northern cities to the Mississippi River.

This photograph, taken in an automobile factory in 1913, BEST represents which aspect of specialized labor?

• Factory owners planning to expand business.

• Workers bargaining at a labor union meeting.

• Workers at an assembly line creating car parts.

• Consumers selecting a wide variety of products.

Which of these would BEST describe an effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?

• farmers worked longer hours

• longer factory hours for all workers

• railroad companies expanded routes

• all people were put in the same time zone

How did American industrial leaders earn great wealth during the late 1800s?

• by forming labor unions for workers

• by using mainly slave or forced labor

• by developing new farming techniques

• by creating monopolies and establishing trusts