Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Test Questions
Test Questions/Vocab
100
Making a lot of things quickly and cheaply, usually with machines.
What is Mass Production?
100
A device that sends messages using electrical signals over wires.
What is Telegraph?
100
Which feature most likely created a challenge for the builders of transcontinental railroad?
What is the Rocky Mountains?
100
How did monopolies hurt customers?
What was set high prices?
200
A very strong metal that was used to build machines, bridges, and skyscrapers.
What is steel?
200
A railroad that crossed the entire continent of the United States.
What is Transcontinental Railroad?
200
Who made the light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
200
Why were the factories important during the Second Industrial Revolution?
What is steel used for buildings and railroads?
300
A factory where raw materials, like oil, are cleaned and turned into useful products.
What is Refinery?
300
A person who comes to live in a country where they were not born.
What is an Immigrant?
300
The term urbanization refers to the growth of what?
What are cities?
300
Work, especially physical work.
What is Labor?
400
Oil that is found under the ground and used to make gasoline and other fuels.
What is Petroleum?
400
The growth of cities.
What is Urbanization?
400
What is this statue a symbol of?
What is freedom and opportunity?
400
Products that people buy for personal use.
What are Consumer Goods?
500
A type of engine that burns fuel inside to make power, like in cars.
What is Internal Combustion Engine?
500
The environment and rules of a workplace.
What is Working Conditions?
500
What event is shown in the image?
What is completion of the transcontinental railroad?
500
Doing something well without wasting time or resources.
What is Efficiency?