Industrialization Quiz 2

Question 1

`When was the first transcontiental rr built?

Answer 1

1869

Question 2

How many days did the transcontiental rr cut from cross contry travel?

Answer 2

26 days to 7 days

Question 3

What helped pay for westward rrs and what was the impact?

Answer 3

Federal subsides; made it easy to settle west

Question 4

What did trains carry to the east and west?

Answer 4

East: cattle
west: supplies

Question 5

What did RR expansion help destroy?

Answer 5

Buffalo on the range

Question 6

What replaced buffalo on the range and provided meals for fast growing Eastern cities?

Answer 6

Cattle

Question 7

How much rr track was in 1860?

Answer 7

30,626 mi

Question 8

How much rr track was in 1870?

Answer 8

52,922 mi

Question 9

How much rr track was in 1880?

Answer 9

93,262 mi

Question 10

How much rr track was in 1890?

Answer 10

166,703 mi

Question 11

Where were buffalo and cattle in 1860?

Answer 11

Most midwest = buffalo

Southern tip of TX = cattle

Question 12

Where were buffalo and cattle in 1870?

Answer 12

most midwest was cattle with buffalo in northern midwest

Question 13

Where were buffalo and cattle in 1880?

Answer 13

Cattle covered the western half of the US with very little buffalo

Question 14

What did the north mass produce during the Civil War?

Answer 14

rifles, cannons, ships, and uniforms

Question 15

What allowed people to communicate over long distances?

Answer 15

telegraph and telephone

Question 16

What was the Bessemer process?

Answer 16

made steel production more economical

Question 17

What was used to light and heat homes?

Answer 17

Petroleum based products (keroscene)

Question 18

What powered machines?

Answer 18

Electricity

Question 19

What was the internal combustion engine?

Answer 19

used petroleum based gasoline to power cars and airplanes

Question 20

What did Elias Howe make and when?

Answer 20

sewing machine 1846

Question 21

What did Elisha Otis make and when?

Answer 21

passanger elevator 1852

Question 22

What did Christaphor Sholes make and when?

Answer 22

typewritter 1867

Question 23

What did Alexander Grahm Bell make and when?

Answer 23

Telephone 1876

Question 24

What did Thomas Edison make and when?

Answer 24

electric bulb 1879

Question 25

What did Orville and Wilbur Wright make and when?

Answer 25

airplane 1903

Question 26

What are the major RR towns?

Answer 26

``` Chicago St Louis Minneapolis San Fransico Los Angeles Tacoma ```

Question 27

What was the impact of technological innovations?

Answer 27

Raised standard of living Transportation and Communication New Engineering feats Work and Buisness

Question 28

What was the impact of techological innovations in raised standard of living?

Answer 28

People became accustomed to mass produced products

Question 29

What was the impact of technological innovations in transportation and communication?

Answer 29

New forms of transprotaion (steamships, rr, automobiles) | New methods of communication (telegraph, telephone)

Question 30

What was the impact of technological innovations in new engineeering feats?

Answer 30

Bridges, skyscrapper of steel and concrete, and massive public buildings enabled urban cities to grow

Question 31

What was the impact of technological innovations in work and buisness?

Answer 31

As factories turned to faster and larger machines, workers nd employers lost all personal contact

Question 32

What did rrs promote?

Answer 32

the settlement of the frontier opening up the great plains

Question 33

What did the rrs link in the great plains to?

Answer 33

ranches and farms to urban markets | allowed farmers and ranchers to ship crop and livestock east

Question 34

What kinds of materials did the rrs bring?

Answer 34

brought raw materials to factories and finsished goods to customers

Question 35

Construction of rrs stimulated what kind of industries?

Answer 35

iron steel coal

Question 36

What were buisnesses before and after the war like?

Answer 36

before: small after: the arrival of manufatoring facilites were capable of producing goods for a single market

Question 37

Why were manufactoring facilities profitable?

Answer 37

they were enormace

Question 38

Who was the first to use manufactoring facilities?

Answer 38

textiles but eventually all industries used it

Question 39

After the Civil War, what were buisnesses ran by?

Answer 39

corperations

Question 40

What is a corperation?

Answer 40

company that issues shares to investors

Question 41

What is a stockholder?

Answer 41

share in a corporations profits in the form of dividends

Question 42

Why did corportaions become widespread?

Answer 42

the large amounts of money they could raise

Question 43

What did the Norhtern Pacific RR link?

Answer 43

Chicago to Minneapolis to Tacoma

Question 44

What did the Union Pacific RR link?

Answer 44

Omaha to Sanfransico to Chicago

Question 45

What did the Santa Fe and Topeka trail link?

Answer 45

Chicago to Kansas City to El Paso