History Industrialization 1 and 2

Question 1

What are 2 reasons that industries are drawn to cities during the Industrial Revolution in America

Answer 1

Good transportation, plentiful workers

Question 2

What is urbanization?

Answer 2

Growth of cities

Question 3

what 2 things were critical to the development of skyscrapers?

Answer 3

elevators, steel

Question 4

By 1900, how many passengers traveled on electric streetcars on average per year?

Answer 4

More than 5 billion

Question 5

What was the center for immigration to the USA from Europe?

Answer 5

Ellis Island, NY

Question 6

What was the center for immigration to the USA from Asia

Answer 6

Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay

Question 7

What is a melting pot?

Answer 7

Place where culture is blended together.

Question 8

What 3 things did immigrants bring to America that changes American culture?

Answer 8

Food, Music, Language

Question 9

What is segregation?

Answer 9

Separation of black and white people in public spaces

Question 10

What is the definition of assimilation?

Answer 10

Process of blending culture together.

Question 11

What is Plessy vs Ferguson? What happened? What did the courts decide? Why is it important?

Answer 11

It is a court case. Plessey sued a railroad company. The courts ruled against Plessy. It allowed segregation to continue

Question 12

What kind of jobs did immigrants to the United States often take?

Answer 12

Factory Jobs.

Question 13

What is the first city to have a transportation system powered by electricity.

Answer 13

Richmond, VA

Question 14

What is the name of the center of immigration located in the San Fransisco Bay area

Answer 14

Angel Island

Question 15

For most immigrants to the United States, where did the process of assimilation start?

Answer 15

Jobs

Question 16

What types of classes did employers offer workers because they wanted to Americanize them

Answer 16

English and Citizenship classes

Question 17

What did southern states begin to do at the end of Reconstruction

Answer 17

Restricted African American Rights

Question 18

What type of clause, added to Southern voting laws, allowed poor whites to vote if their ancestor had the ability to vote before 1867.

Answer 18

Grandfather clause

Question 19

Where did factory production in the US spread from? From what industry?

Answer 19

New England, Textile Industry

Question 20

What are SIX factors that encouraged the growth of industry in the United States

Answer 20

1. Plentiful natural workers
2. Growing Population
3. Improved transportation
4. High Immigration
5. New Inventions
6. Invesment capital

Question 21

How much did the population of the United States increase between 1860-1900

Answer 21

31.5 million- 76 million

Question 22

What are the 3 improved means of transportation available during the Industrial revolution in the United States?

Answer 22

steamboats, canals, railroads

Question 23

what did increase in immigration to the united states filled the need for?

Answer 23

jobs

Question 24

what is a patent?

Answer 24

government document giving an inventor exclusive right to make and sell their invention for a specific number of years.

Question 25

what was considered the backbone of industry in America

Answer 25

Steel

Question 26

what is defined as "a machine that produces electrical currents".

Answer 26

Generator

Question 27

What was thomas Edison's greatest invention

Answer 27

practical electrical lighting

Question 28

with a new and more cost efficient (cheaper) process to make steel, America's steel output increased how many times between 1867 and 1900.

Answer 28

500 times

Question 29

who is the inventor who found the most ways to use electricity?

Answer 29

Thomas Edison

Question 30

what is the name for the new process of making steel that drastically cut the cost of making steel?

Answer 30

bessemer steel process

Question 31

What is the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 31

railroad that spans the entire continent.

Question 32

where was edison's laboratory located?

Answer 32

New Jersey

Question 33

what railroad company started in Sacramento CA and built east

Answer 33

central pacific railroad

Question 34

what was the main use of steel in Industrial America

Answer 34

rails for expanding railroads

Question 35

what industry "gave people more control over their environment?"

Answer 35

railroad industry

Question 36

thomas edison recieved more than how many patents from the US government?

Answer 36

1000 patents

Question 37

the central pacific railroad hired what type (nationality) of workers.

Answer 37

Chinese workers

Question 38

what linked the economies of eastern and southern america?

Answer 38

railroads.

Question 39

in 1882 what city did edison install a half mile square area of electrical lights.

Answer 39

new york city

Question 40

what railroad company started in Omaha, NE and built west

Answer 40

Union Pacific Railroad

Question 41

who invented the telegraph?

Answer 41

Samuel Morse

Question 42

which railroad laid more miles of track; the central pacific railroad or the union pacific railroad?

Answer 42

Union pacific railroad

Question 43

what are the 3 new jobs created by inventions that changes the industry?

Answer 43

Switchboard Operators, Type writers, Sewing machine

Question 44

by the end of 1880's how many lightbulbs was edison's factory producing each year?

Answer 44

1 million

Question 45

the union pacific railroad hired what type of (nationality) of workers?

Answer 45

Irish workers

Question 46

what affect did the railroad have on Native Americans?

Answer 46

Herds of buffalo were killed off, weakened the Native Americans

Question 47

who invented the telephone?

Answer 47

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 48

In what city did the central pacific railroad and the union pacific railroad get joined together to form the transcontinental railroad?

Answer 48

Promotory, Utah

Question 49

Where is Alexander Graham Bell from? What did he do before inventing the telephone?

Answer 49

scotland, he taught deaf students in Boston

Question 50

What is a telegraph

Answer 50

electrical impulses used to send messages long distance.

Question 51

The bessemer steel process requires how much steel compared to the old methods.

Answer 51

1/7th