chapter 18: industry and urban growth quiz review

Chapter 18: Industry and Urban Growth

Quiz Review

Someone who sets up new

businesses to make a

profit.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

An organization that gives

food, shelter,

and clothing to

the homeless.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

Center offering

help to the urban poor.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

Manufacturing method in

which a product is put together as it moves along a conveyer belt.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

The idea of “survival of the fittest.”

This concept was used by

business leaders to

limit competition.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

A time period that

changed the way

Americans worked and lived.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

Businesses owned by

many investors.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

Document that gives

someone the sole rights

to make and to sell an invention.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation-Salvation Army

Buildings divided into tiny

apartments.

Choices:

-Assembly Line-Industrial Revolution-Social Darwinism-Settlement Houses-Patent-Entrepreneur-Tenements-Corporation -Salvation Army

Created the first

airplane, which most

people found foolish

Choices:

-Henry Ford

- Jane Addams

- John D. Rockefeller

- Andrew Carnegie

- Wright Brothers

Automaker who

introduced assembly line mass

production to the auto industry.

Choices:

-Henry Ford

- Jane Addams

- John D. Rockefeller

- Andrew Carnegie

- Wright Brothers

Choices:

-Henry Ford

- Jane Addams

- Alexander Graham Bell

- Andrew Carnegie

- Wright Brothers

Inventor of the

telephone

Choices:

-Henry Ford

- Jane Addams

- Alexander Graham Bell

- Christopher Sholes

- Wright Brothers

Developed the first typewriter

Choices:

-Henry Ford

- Jane Addams

- Alexander Graham Bell

- Christopher Sholes

- Wright Brothers

Reformer who founded the

Hull House in Chicago in

1889.

Name 3 sports that became popular in the U.S. during the late 1800s and early

1900s.

-Baseball-Football

-Basketball

Give three adjectives to describe tenement life.

- Overcrowding- Diseases spread quickly- Danger of fire

Name 3 of Thomas Edison’s inventions.

-light bulb- phonograph

-motion picture camera

Which two men were considered “titans of

industry”?

- Andrew Carnegie- John D. Rockefeller

Describe working in a sweatshop.

- People worked long hours under poor conditions for low pay.

What did Thomas Edison invent?

The light bulb, the phonograph, and over 1,000 other inventions.

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

The first working telephone

Describe the Wright Brothers’ accomplishment.

-Orville and Wilbur Wright were the first people to fly an airplane.

-They experimented with the airplanes at a beach in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903.

- This first airplane flight was important because it made traveling to farther places easier and quicker.