Famous People In The Industrial Revolution

Question 0

Who invented the telephone?

Answer 0

Alexander Graham Bell.

Question 1

Who made his fortune in the oil industry?

Answer 1

John D. Rockefeller

Question 2

Who made his fortune in the steel business?

Answer 2

Andrew Carnegie

Question 3

Who invented electric power?

Answer 3

Thomas Edison.

Question 4

Causes of the Industrial Revolution.

Answer 4

1. The use of Natural Resources
2. City population growth
3. Transportation
4. High immigration
5. New inventions

Question 5

Impact of the Bessemer process for making steel:

Answer 5

Mass produced steel and became really cheap.

Question 6

Impact of electric power.

Answer 6

Helped power machines and work at night.

Question 7

Impact of the telephone:

Answer 7

Buyers could communicate with businesses and workers could communicate.

Question 8

3 negative effects that factories did to run factories cheaply.

Answer 8

1. Long hours
2. Low safety
3. Low pay

Question 9

What did workers do to make things better?

Answer 9

They formed labor unions or had strikes.

Question 10

2 positive effects of labor unions and strikes:

Answer 10

1. Better pay

2. Better working conditions.

Question 11

2 negative effects of labor unions and strikes:

Answer 11

1. Violence

2. With better pay less jobs available

Question 12

What is a monopoly?

Answer 12

A business that controls all of a particular industry.

Question 13

Why are monopolies so successful?

Answer 13

When a monopoly controls all of a particular industry there is no competition meaning that they can price their items in any way.

Question 14

What is an example of a monopoly?

Answer 14

Standard oil company ran by John D. Rockefeller.

Question 15

Why didn’t people like monopolies?

Answer 15

With no competition they could price the items they made at whatever cost.

Question 16

What were the wages and labor like for monopolies?

Answer 16

Low wages because of no competition hard labor