Industrialization

Question 1

What city was the center of the meat industry?

Answer 1

Chicago

Question 2

What was the railroad city?

Answer 2

Omaha

Question 3

What region was the center of textiles?

Answer 3

North

Question 4

What city was the center for the automobile industry?

Answer 4

Detroit

Question 5

What were major inventions in transportation?

Answer 5

• Steam Boats
• Canals
• Railroads
• Refrigerated Railcars
• Better Roads
• Automobiles
• Airplanes

Question 6

What is the definition of natural resources?

Answer 6

Anything that people can use that comes from nature.

Question 7

Is it better to have more or less natural resources?

Answer 7

More because if you have more natural resources the faster your industry can grow.

Question 8

What were some of the natural resources that that United States had?

Answer 8

• Iron Ore
• Coal
• Petroleum
• Copper
• Lead
• Wood
• Phosphates

Question 9

Where were products made?

Answer 9

• Close to a work force

- Close to natural resources

Question 10

What are agricultural areas?

Answer 10

Large rural areas where farming occurs.

Question 11

What are manufacturing centers?

Answer 11

Places where natural resources are turned into finished products.

Question 12

What is a national market.

Answer 12

Places where large populations want products.

Question 13

How did advances and transportation link resources, products and markets?

Answer 13

• Made it possible to take natural resources to manufacturing centers to be used in making finished products
• Finished products could now be taken to national markets regardless of distances

Question 14

Who invented the telephone and what was its impact?

Answer 14

• Alexander Graham Bell

- Could communicate between long distances

Question 15

Who invented the phonograph and how did it impact people.

Answer 15

• Thomas Edison

- Could now listen to music in the comfort of your own home

Question 16

Who invented the first practical lightbulb and what impact did it have?

Answer 16

• Thomas Edison
• Could light you homes without flames
• Could light your home after dark

Question 17

What city was the center of steel production?

Answer 17

Pittsburgh

Question 18

Who invented the fountain pen and how did it impact people.

Answer 18

• Lewis Waterman

- Better and more efficient writing utensil.

Question 19

Who invented the air air brake and what was its impact?

Answer 19

• George Westinghouse
• Could stop trains without labor
• Much safer travel for train passengers

Question 20

Who invented the process to convert iron to steel and how did that impact people?

Answer 20

• Henry Bessemer
• Steel was a stronger and more durable material
• Steel was made cheaper with this process

Question 21

Who invented the typewriter and how did it impact people

Answer 21

• Made documents and letters more legible

Question 22

Who invented the first motion picture and what was its impact?

Answer 22

• Thomas Edison

- Was a new form of entertainment for people

Question 23

Who invented radio transmission and how did it impact people?

Answer 23

• Guglielmo Marconi

- New way of receiving news and entertainment

Question 24

Who invented powered flight and what was its impact?

Answer 24

• Wright Brothers

- New faster form of transportation

Question 25

Who invented the assembly line and how did it impact people?

Answer 25

- Less need for skilled workers | - Lower wages for families

Question 26

Who invented the Electric power plant and what was its impact?

Answer 26

- Thomas Edison | - Made it possible to provide power for multiple electric decides at once

Question 27

What is a cooperation?

Answer 27

- A public company (a company owned by many people) | - These companies can buy other companies because they have more money

Question 28

What is a monopoly?

Answer 28

The complete control of an industry by a person or cooperation

Question 29

What were robber barons?

Answer 29

- Wealthy powerful businessmen - Used exploitive practices and government influences - Paid lower than minimum wage - Squashed start up companies - Created monopolies and raised their products prices

Question 30

Who was Andrew Carnegie?

Answer 30

- Scottish immigrant - Founded Carnegie Steel Company - Philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars at the end of his life - Owned every step needed to make iron to steel

Question 31

What is vertical integration?

Answer 31

Owning every step needed for an industry.

Question 32

Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?

Answer 32

- A rags to riches story - Controlled the shipping and railroad industry - Used vertical integration - Ruthless - Built Grand Central Station in New York

Question 33

Who was JP Morgan?

Answer 33

- A rich to richer story - Bought Carnegie Steel Co. from Andre Carnegie - Singlehandedly bailed out US government - Created General Electric after a taking it for Edison - Very ruthless and was considered a robber baron

Question 34

Who was John D Rockefeller?

Answer 34

- Had most of his business in Ohio - Wealthiest of four robber barons - Founded Standard Oil Company - Created a way to refine oil - Becomes the richest man in history - Owned 90% of the refinery business - Considered very ruthless and uncaring - Was the first person to be accused as a robber Barron and taken to trial on a monopoly

Question 35

What is horizontal combination?

Answer 35

Owning the businesses that are needed for an industry

Question 36

What were the 5 impacts the industrial revolution had on employees of big businesses?

Answer 36

- Rise of Immigration - Low Pay - Long Hours - Unsafe Working Conditions - Child Labor

Question 37

What were some dangers children faces while working at factories?

Answer 37

- Desease - Rats and Vermin - Cuts and Scrapes - Poor Air - Beatings

Question 38

What were some of the jobs children had to do?

Answer 38

- Peeling Potatoes - Snapping Beans - Cottin Gin - Sorting Coal - Sewing - Glass Factory

Question 39

What opportunity that we have today did children then not have?

Answer 39

The opportunity to go to school.

Question 40

What type of skills did children have that made them preferable for some jobs?

Answer 40

- Small Hands - More Manageable - Able to Get Into Small Places - Complained Less - Quicker - Able to Do Simple Tasks for Long Periods of Time

Question 41

What was the Laissez-Faire Law?

Answer 41

Policy for the government that they wouldn't interfere with indutry

Question 42

What did the Laissez-Faire Law cause?

Answer 42

Low wages and long hours because there were no restrictions.

Question 43

What did an industry need to grow in the US?

Answer 43

- Capitol - Natural Resources - Railroads - Energy - New Inventions - Large Populations - Advertising

Question 44

How did mechanization transform American life?

Answer 44

Mechanization replaced the need for human lab for many farm tasks with more efficient and effective machines.

Question 45

How did urban industrial development transform American life?

Answer 45

Made the day-to-day life of Americans easier and opened the door to more employment opportunities.

Question 46

How did the shift in the population to rural to urban communities transform American life?

Answer 46

Many Americans moved from farms to cities for better opportunities and more exciting activities.

Question 47

How did access to consumer goods transform American life?

Answer 47

Access to consumer goods provided rural Americans with the ability to purchase items previously only available in cities. Mail order catalogs opened up the country as a national market for many different products.