Multiple Choice Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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What stimulated the American steel, lumber, and coal industries?
a. | telegraph | c. | stagecoaches | b. | oil | d. | railroads |
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Whose automobile and assembly line changed industry and society forever?
a. | John D. Rockefeller | c. | Theodore Roosevelt | b. | Andrew Carnegie | d. | Henry Ford |
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Who dominated the steel industry?
a. | Henry Ford | c. | John D. Rockefeller | b. | Andrew Carnegie | d. | Theodore
Roosevelt |
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What impacted building of skyscrapers, bridges, and rails &
locomotives?
a. | Age of Steel | c. | Heavy Metal | b. | Age of the Automobile | d. | Age of Aquarius |
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What were created to improve working conditions?
a. | Onions | c. | Industries | b. | Assembly Lines | d. | Unions |
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What was so low in factories that everyone in the family had to work?
a. | wages | c. | shelves | b. | ceilings | d. | chairs |
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What did Henry Ford invent that was called the Model T?
a. | a railroad sleeping car | c. | a typewriter | b. | a
telephone | d. | an
automobile |
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Railroads provided __________ of jobs.
a. | hundreds | c. | millions | b. | thousands | d. | billions |
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What made it possible to locate factories at the top level of 10 story
skyscrapers?
a. | the telegraph | c. | electric elevators | b. | the telephone | d. | railroads |
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__________ were created to improve working conditions.
a. | Unions | c. | Trusts | b. | Railroads | d. | Crowded
factories |
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What type of buildings made it possible to increase the number of people that
could inhabit or work in them?
a. | sod houses | c. | quonset huts | b. | log cabins | d. | skyscrapers |
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What was the name of Rockefeller's oil company?
a. | Shell Oil Company | c. | Conoco Oil Company | b. | Gulf Oil Company | d. | Standard Oil
Company |
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the...
a. | telephone | c. | light bulb | b. | telegraph | d. | camera |
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Invented the electric light bulb...
a. | Thomas Edison | c. | Cyrus Field | b. | Alexander Graham Bell | d. | George Eastman |
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Who invented the small box camera that everyday people could purchase and
use?
a. | Thomas Edison | c. | George Eastman | b. | Alexander Graham Bell | d. | Cyrus Field |
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