M2L2 PRACTICE QUIZ

Henry Ford produced a more affordable car primarily because his company

• Offered a variety of options to buyers.

• Used foreign-made parts.

• Paid workers lower wages than its competitors paid.

• Developed a less expensive method of production.

Although Deere started in Grand Detour, Illinois, he had to leave because

• It was too hard to transport materials in and out.

• No one had heard of the place.

• It had bad weather.

• The cost of property and labor was too high.

Deere got farmers to try his new plow by

• Giving them ample credit.

• Allowing them to take and try one.

• Carrying them all around the country.

• Selling them to the government.

In making farm tools like hay forks and shovels, Deere succeeded because he made them

• Only from pieces of broken tools.

• As cheaply as possible.

• In advance so they were ready.

• As people ordered them.

American farming changed dramatically during the Industrial Revolution, becoming more

• Associated with immigrant day laborers.

• Scientific and mechanized.

• Closely tied to urban life on a daily basis.

• Polluted and increasingly unproductive.

In what way did Cyrus McCormick's reaper help the United States develop into a major agricultural producer?

• By eliminating the use of workhorses in farming.

• By helping farmers increase the size of crops.

• By easing the chore of cutting through prairie sod.

• By speeding up the separation of grain and stalk.

Which statement best describes the role of railroads in the industrialization of the United States?

• They were the earliest form of commercial transportation.

• They were unable to compete in areas that had good water transportation.

• They are more important to industry today than they were 100 years ago.

• They provided an efficient means of transportation during the Age of Big Business.

How did the transcontinental railroad change as it approached the 20th century?

• It went bankrupt and by the 1890s was nearly extinct as a result of the never-ending need for more capital for railroad maintenance and the dwindling client base.

• It became increasingly dependent on a manual labor force, particularly the labor of immigrants living near the railroad lines.

• There were more accidents because of new technologies which increased travel speed, resulting in a drastic decrease in passenger trains.

• The invention of the electric locomotive and the diesel engine resulted in longer and cleaner-burning trains; new industries became increasingly dependent on its services.

After Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he formed the Bell Telephone Company. How successful was the company?

• In 1866, the company sent messages from the U.S. to Europe in seconds.

• Bell Telephone sold too few phones to cover expenses and went bankrupt.

• Nearly 500,000 customers, mostly businesses, owned telephones by 1860.

• The U.S. Government had thousands of miles of telephone by 1860.

All are true about the building of the transcontinental railroad except

• The secession of the South enabled Southern states to appropriate funds to build the railroad along the Southern route.

• It resulted in the largest immigration boom in U.S. history, as European immigrants were promised land along the railroad lines at little to no cost.

• It increased business development and westward migration by crossing, and making accessible, more than 2,300 miles of undeveloped land.

• It was the first continuous railroad line built in the United States, reaching west from Omaha, Nebraska, and east from Sacramento, California.