Topic 1 Practice: Industry and Immigration

Which innovation allowed Americans to process iron into steel?

• Morse Code

• alternating current

• Bessemer process

• direct current

Which countrywide system allowed producers to transport natural resources to different parts of the country efficiently?

• Railroads

• Highways

• River boats

• Telegraph lines

These are people who build and manage businesses Or enterprises in order to make a profit.

• Electricians

• Politicians

• Entrepreneurs

• Corporations

The freedom to run a business for profit with minimal regulation is called _____________.

• Corporation

• Laissez-faire

• Entrepreneurship

• Free enterprise

When businesses operate under minimal government regulation that is called_____________.

• Entrepreneurship

• Laissez- faire

• Free enterprise

• Corporations

The use of railroads to ship resources and products across the country created a need for standardized _________ in order to increase efficiency.

• Corporations

• Fuel prices

• Time zones

• Electric grid

He was an inventor supported by wealthy industrialists with a research lab in Menlo Park.

• Thomas Edison

• Lewis Latimer

• George Westinghouse

• Nikola Tesla

He was an inventor who made the lightbulb more sturdy and affordable by using carbon in the filament.

• Thomas Edison

• Lewis Latimer

• George Westinghouse

• Nikola Tesla

production of goods in large numbers through the use of machinery and assembly lines

• corporation

• monopoly

• mass production

• trust

association of producers of a good or service that prices and controls stocks in order to monopolize the market

• cartel

• corporation

• monopoly

• mass production