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Industrial Revolution

Practice Test Write your answers on a sheet of paper. Check your answers at the end of the power point. Get a parent’s signature on your paper.  5 extra points on your test. Industrial Revolution . Who invented the telephone?. Alexander Graham Bell Lewis Latimer Frank Sprague.

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Industrial Revolution

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  1. Practice Test Write your answers on a sheet of paper. Check your answers at the end of the power point. Get a parent’s signature on your paper.  5 extra points on your test. Industrial Revolution

  2. Who invented the telephone? • Alexander Graham Bell • Lewis Latimer • Frank Sprague

  3. Which of the following events shows how conditions improved for workers in the early 1900s? a. The Triangle Shirtwaist fire b. The completion of the transcontinental railroad c. The establishment of Labor Day

  4. Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent? A. The airplane B. The electric streetcar C. The phonograph

  5. All of the following were goals of the American Federation of Labor Except A. End child labor B. Better wages C. 12-hour workday

  6. Which of these inventions changed transportation at the turn of the twentieth century? A. The pony express B. The electric streetcar C. The stagecoach

  7. All of the following were reasons for labor unions Except A. Many business owners were going on strike. B. Working conditions were often unhealthy and dangerous. C. Many workers labored in hot, cramped workshops.

  8. All of the following are ways that inventions during the late 1800s and early 1900s led to the rise of new industries Except • People started businesses to offer telephone services. • Airplanes manufacturing became the country’s leading industry. • Entrepreneurs built power stations to bring electricity to cities.

  9. Which of the following best describes how railroads helped the United States economy grow? • They used many tons of steel. • They helped end the shipping industry. • They helped business reach distant markets.

  10. Andrew Carnegie is known for which of the following? • Inventing a new method for making steel • Building a huge steel empire • Building oil refineries

  11. Which business leader founded Standard Oil Company? • Edwin Drake • John D. Rockefeller • William Randolph Hearst

  12. Check your answers • A • C • C • C • B • A • B • C • A • B How did you do? Study your vocabulary on pg. 39 in your Social Studies Workbook

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