Industrialization/Immigration

The shift from the hand crafted system to machine technology and factories is called:

• Urbanization
• Revolution
• Industrialization
• Civilization

In the factories, machinery was dangerous and accidents were common.

• True
• False

How did the development of the factory system encourage urbanization? 

• Industrialists invested in cotton plantations.
• Workers moved closer to manufacturing centers
• Labor unions were formed to protect mill workers.
• Manufacturers produced goods to export overseas.

A monopoly is...

• A railroad company

• A game created by Parker Brothers

• Total control over an entire industry or service

• Having many companies selling the same product

True or False: People moved from urban areas to rural (farming) areas looking for work in factories.

• True

• False

Vanderbilt had a monopoly in which industry?

• Railroad

• Oil

• Steel

• Banking/Investments

True or False: the population of America increased during the Industrial Revolution.

• True

• False

Carnegie's main industry was...

• Banking/Investments

• Railroads

• Oil

• Steel

Rockefeller's main industry was...

• Steel

• Oil

• Railroad

• Banking/Investments

Who was the captain of the steel industry?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt