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Industry Quiz

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

What stimulated the American steel, lumber, and coal industries?
a.
telegraph
c.
stagecoaches
b.
oil
d.
railroads
 

 2. 

Whose automobile and assembly line changed industry and society forever?
a.
John D. Rockefeller
c.
Theodore Roosevelt
b.
Andrew Carnegie
d.
Henry Ford
 

 3. 

Who dominated the steel industry?
a.
Henry Ford
c.
John D. Rockefeller
b.
Andrew Carnegie
d.
Theodore Roosevelt
 

 4. 

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
 

 5. 

What were created to improve working conditions?
a.
Onions
c.
Industries
b.
Assembly Lines
d.
Unions
 

 6. 

What was so low in factories that everyone in the family had to work?
a.
wages
c.
shelves
b.
ceilings
d.
chairs
 

 7. 

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
 

 8. 

Railroads provided __________ of jobs.
a.
hundreds
c.
millions
b.
thousands
d.
billions
 

 9. 

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
 

 10. 

__________ were created to improve working conditions.
a.
Unions
c.
Trusts
b.
Railroads
d.
Crowded factories
 

 11. 

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
 

 12. 

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
 

 13. 

Alexander Graham Bell invented the...
a.
telephone
c.
light bulb
b.
telegraph
d.
camera
 

 14. 

Invented the electric light bulb...
a.
Thomas Edison
c.
Cyrus Field
b.
Alexander Graham Bell
d.
George Eastman
 

 15. 

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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