18-1 Review

Question 1

patent

Answer 1

Document given by the U.S. government that gives someone the sole right to make and sell an invention

Question 2

Thomas Edison

Answer 2

American inventor who patented the light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera and built the first electric power plant in the U.S.

Question 3

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 3

Inventor who patented the telephone

Question 4

Henry Ford

Answer 4

American manufacturer who used the assembly line to make cars

Question 5

assembly line

Answer 5

Manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a conveyor belt

Question 6

Wilber & Orville Wright

Answer 6

Tested a gas-powered airplane at Kitty Hawk, NC in 1903

Question 7

Reasons farmers and ranchers were upset with the railroads

Answer 7

Railroad companies got rid of competition and had monopolies. They could then charge higher rates to ship goods. The federal government had a laissez-faire approach to business at this time and few to no regulations.

Question 8

“Black Gold”

Answer 8

Nickname for oil that was used as a lubricant, kerosene, gasoline and to make other products. The first oil discovery in the U.S. was in Pennsylvania.

Question 9

Negative impacts of industrialization

Answer 9

-More air, water and land pollution.
-More workers were hurt due to few safety devices on machines and few regulations.
-Some people lost jobs because machines replaced them.