chapter 18: industry and urban growth quiz review
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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.