Inventions from the Industrial Revolution

This was invented to communicate faster without having to learn a code.

• television

• phonograph

• telegraph

• telephone

By 1920, more Americans lived in cities than in rural areas. What was one explanation of this change?

• Industries tended to develop and grow in key cities. Factories needed large numbers of workers. People moved into the cities to work in those factories.

• Most farmers moved from rural areas into cities, where they bought small plots of land. They grew food for their own families there.

• The government wanted cities to grow, so it paid immigrants from Europe to move into the cities.

• The growth of railroads caused towns to spring up along their routes.

What was steel used for?

• railroads and skyscrapers

• tenement housing

• bridges and towers

• rollercoasters and hockey rinks

What shipped raw goods to cities where it changed raw materials into consumer products?

• Model T

• transcontinental Pony Express

• railroad

• ships

Who was the inventor(s) of the first “flying machine”?

• Charles Lindbergh.

• William E. Boeing.

• the Duryea Brothers.

• the Wright Brothers.

After the Civil War, the economy was based on what type economy?

• factory workers

• agrarian

• manufactured goods

• electric stations

Why was the Bessemer process important?

• It made the production of high-quality steel faster and cheaper.

• It was the first major effort to regulate large businesses in the United States.

• It made it possible to process immigrants into the country much faster at Ellis Island.

• It led to the invention of the telephone.

How did Thomas Edison’s famous invention of 1879 change how people lived?

• It made transportation faster and safer.

• It made everyday life safer and brighter.

• It allowed people to communicate across long distances.

• It made it possible for everyone to own their own method of transportation.

Someone who puts money into a business to make a profit

• investor

• refinery

• labor union

• corporation

Before the Industrial Revolution __________ (check ALL that are correct)

• families had little money

• children worked long hours doing chores or working in the fields

• all children went to school

• if something broke, people just bought a new one

• people had poor diets and bad sanitary habits