Chapter 11 and 12 Test Review

Question 1

What did Thomas Edison do during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 1

Invented the light bulb.

Question 2

George Pullman

Answer 2

Created a community for his workers.

Question 3

Rockefellar

Answer 3

Owned Standard Oil.

Question 4

Christopher Sholes

Answer 4

Invented the typewriter.

Question 5

Henry Bessemer

Answer 5

Created a more efficient way to make steel.

Question 6

Edwin Drake

Answer 6

First person to use the steam engine to suck out oil from beneath the ground.

Question 7

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 7

Dominated the steel industry.

Question 8

Mary Jones

Answer 8

Organized worker unions in the coal mines for women and children.

Question 9

What effect did the Triangle Shirt-Waist Factory burning down have?

Answer 9

It led workers to want better fire escapes and rights.

Question 10

What is a scab?

Answer 10

Someone who fills avoid for someone on a sit down strike.

Question 11

Where were factories built?

Answer 11

Factories were built on the water, until electricity was invented then they could be built wherever.

Question 12

What did American Federation of Labor and union do?

Answer 12

Helped to improve worker’s wages and rights.

Question 13

What did the Sherman Antitrust Act do?

Answer 13

Outlawed monopolies

Question 14

When were skyscrapers built?

Answer 14

After the invention of making steel more efficiently.

Question 15

What effect did Social Darwinism have?

Answer 15

Was the mindset for big entreprenuers when they first started out: the stronger business dominates the weaker ones.

Question 16

What is vertical integration?

Answer 16

Buying out the suppliers/producers.

Question 17

What changes did railroads cause?

Answer 17

Ended the wide open frontier.

Question 18

Where did the Sioux defeat General Custer?

Answer 18

At the battle of Little Big Horn.

Question 19

What did the battle of Little Big Horn lead to?

Answer 19

Lead to the Massacre of Wounded Knee.

Question 20

What was the Sioux last battle?

Answer 20

The Massacre of Wounded Knee.

Question 21

What was a central part of Native American culture?

Answer 21

Buffalo, family, and horses was a central part of Native American culture.

Question 22

What were the reasons settlers moved West?

Answer 22

The Homestead Act, Gold, and Native Americans for freedom.

Question 23

What did railroads do to farmers?

Answer 23

Railroads charged a ton of money towards farmers for shipping their goods.

Question 24

What was bimetallism?

Answer 24

A system of allowing the unrestricted currency of two metals (e.g. gold and silver) as legal tender at a fixed ratio to each other; farmers supported this.