Industrialization

How did the US economy change after Reconstruction? (5-3.1)

• Farmers produced more crops.

• Trade was even more important to the US.

• The US became a manufacturing and production country.

• More people moved to the country because of overcrowding.

How did new methods of mass production contribute to the Industrial Revolution?

• New products were all made by hand.

• Businesses used sharecropping to increase the production of goods.

• New products were made quickly and cheaply

• Cities became ghost towns because machines replaced manual labor.

Which invention, improved by Edison, most changed the way factories operated in the late 19th century?

• The refrigerator

• The lightbulb

• Ford Motor Vehicles

• John Deere farm equipment

How did Orville and Wilbur Wright contribute to the rise of the United States as a world power?

• They started the aircraft industry with their experiments in manned flight.

• They allowed women to do work usually done by men.

• They explored new lands acquired by the US.

• They improved the new Model-T vehicle.

What happened as America shifted from an agrarian (farming) nation to an industrial nation?

• New technologies helped farm work get done quicker and quicker.

• It led to higher crop output.

• Many people moved to the cities to make more money.

• All of the above

The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, improved communication and replaced which of the following?

• Skyscraper

• Plow

• Telegraph

• Cell phone

What impact did availability of electricity have upon the homes in the late 1800s?

• It led to the invention of such things as washing machines and vacuum cleaners.

• The telegraph became an even more popular device used in more homes.

• Fewer homes needed electricity

• None of the above

Who made the Bessemer process, which converted iron into steel, popular in the United States?

• Lewis Latimer

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

How did electricity change the United States?

• Every American could afford electricity for their home.

• Electricity was immediately available to all US citizens.

• Homes needed more candles because the electricity was not always reliable.

• Stores and factories could stay open longer, to make more products and money.

Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller developed business practices that let them take total control of a specific industry. This practice was called ______________.

• monopoly

• technology

• labor unions

• urbanization