Men Who Built America
Factory Life
Trends
Inventors and Inventions
Mystery
100
Which man created an automobile company and introduced the assembly line to factories?
Henry Ford
100
What was the name given to factories during the Industrial Revolution that produced awful working conditions and low wages to workers?
Sweatshops
100
What trend describes the development of industry on a large scale?
Industrialization
100
Name the three inventors discussed in class from the Industrial Revolution.
Bell, Latimer, and Edison
100
Name at least two roots/causes of the American Industrial Revolution.
Answers will vary (British Industrial Revolution, new technology, creation of factories and new production methods, better transportation, urbanization and new immigration trends)
200
Which man owned the U.S. Steel Company and donated money to build thousands of libraries?
Andrew Carnegie
200
Name at least two working conditions common in sweatshops.
Answers will vary: long hours, low wages, hazardous conditions, polluted air, etc.
200
Which trend describes the process of large groups of people moving away from rural areas and into the cities?
Urbanization
200
Which inventor was accredited with inventing the first commercially practical light bulb?
Thomas Edison
200
Which banking tycoon was investigated by Congress due to his business practices?
J.P. Morgan
300
Which man owned the Standard Oil Company and was, at one point, the wealthiest man in the world?
John D. Rockefeller
300
Name one advantage of sweatshops during the Industrial Revolution.
Answers will vary (produced jobs, created jobs for people previously unemployable- such as immigrants, women and children, helped boost the economy, etc)
300
Which trend describes when people move away from their native country to permanently live in another country?
Immigration
300
Which inventor helped to invent the filament that produced longer light in light bulbs?
Lewis Latimer
300
Name two of three regions where new, large groups of immigrants were coming from during the Industrial Revolution.
Answers will vary (Eastern Europe, East Asia, Ireland)
400
Which man had an university named after him?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
400
Describe the event that drew a lot of attention to sweatshop factories in America and helped spark change to improve working conditions.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Many women died, and some threw themselves out of the burning while people on the street witnessed the event. Sparked new labor laws and trade unions.
400
Name one event or factor that contributed to urbanization during the Industrial Revolution.
Answers will vary (First Great Migration of African-Americans, new wave of immigrants, people moving away from failing farms and into the cities)
400
Which inventor is accredited with inventing the first telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
400
What was significant about Lewis Latimer, in terms of his identity or outward characteristic?
He was African-American.
500
Name all 5 "Men Who Built America".
Carnegie, Vanderbilt, Ford, Rockefeller, and Morgan
500
What area of the world do we still see a lot of sweatshop factories present today? Also, name one reason why strikes in these factories are not effective.
1) Southeast Asia 2) Labor laws there do not exist or are not enforced by the government; factory jobs are seen as good jobs and therefore it is easy to replace anyone who quits or strikes; in order to make a strike effective, Western countries would have to participate
500
Name at least one thing that immigrants were escaping when they sought to move to America.
Answers will vary (famine, religious persecution)
500
Which inventor was partially deaf? Why did he describe this as an advantage?
1) Thomas Edison 2) He said it helped him concentrate better on his work
500
The American Industrial Revolution began towards the end of which century?
The 19th century.
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