Chapter 3: Industrialization

What economic measurement looks at the total value of all goods and services in a given year?

• Gross Domestic Product

• Inflation Rate

• Gross National Product

• Federal Reserve

Select all of the inventions credited to Thomas Edison

• Telephone

• Lightbulb

• Generator

• Motion Picture

Select all of the reasons there was a rise in industry during the back half of the 1800s.

• Natural Resources

• Growing Workforce

• Inventors/Entrepreneurs

• Free Enterprise

What phone company today has a connection to Alexander Graham Bell?

• AT&T

• Verizon

• T-Mobile

• Nokia

What country of origin is the term Laissez Faire?

• Spain

• Germany

• United Kingdom

• France

What state did the Transcontinental Railroad get completed in?

• California

• Colorado

• Missouri

• Utah

Select all of the railroad companies that were used to make the Transcontinental Railroad.

• Great Northern

• Union Pacific

• Federal Atlantic

• Amtrak

• Central Pacific

What continent did goods head to from the Great Northern Railroad?

• Asia

• Australia

• Europe

• Africa

What was given by the government to railroad companies to build across the country?

• Water Rights

• Land

• Gold

• Money

What was the name of the newspaper that exposed the Credit Mobilier Scandal?

• New York Post

• Washington Post

• New York Sun

• Philadelphia Gazette