Unit 7: Quiz 2

Question 1

__________ was the leading European industrial nation in the 1700s.

Answer 1

England

Question 2

__________ supplied a large amount of the workforce in factories.

Answer 2

Immigrants

Question 3

New Englanders grew wealthy from

Answer 3

shippbuilding and trading

Question 4

improved agriculture

Answer 4

steel plow

Question 5

improved textile industry

Answer 5

sewing machine

Question 6

improved transportation

Answer 6

steam locomotive

Question 7

increased production of American products

Answer 7

Embargo Act of 1807

Question 8

The first national road in America was called the

Answer 8

Cumberland Road

Question 9

The United States’ first canal connected

Answer 9

Lake Erie to the Hudson River

Question 9

The United States’ first canal connected

Answer 9

Lake Erie to the Hudson River

Question 10

improved road surface

Answer 10

Cumberland Road

Question 11

steamship

Answer 11

the Clermont

Question 12

Peter Cooper

Answer 12

Tom Thumb

Question 13

direct water route

Answer 13

The Erie Canal

Question 14

grain production

Answer 14

thresher and reaper

Question 15

cotton gin

Answer 15

Whitney

Question 16

iron plow

Answer 16

Wood

Question 17

steel plow

Answer 17

Deere

Question 18

reaping machine

Answer 18

McCormick

Question 19

steamboat

Answer 19

Fulton

Question 20

steam locomotive

Answer 20

Cooper

Question 21

cotton cloth factory

Answer 21

Lowell

Question 22

The merging of businesses into one large organization.

Answer 22

consolidation

Question 23

Assembled and ready for war duty.

Answer 23

mobilized

Question 24

The exclusive control of a commodity or production by a business.

Answer 24

monopoly

Question 25

Brought to conformity; making all alike.

Answer 25

standardized

Question 26

Wars brought

Answer 26

increased production, decreased unemployment, growth to industry

Question 27

Wars that matured American industry included

Answer 27

The War of 1812 and the Civil War

Question 28

_________ system of standardized parts allowed the broken or worn parts to be replaced

Answer 28

Whitney's

Question 29

___________________ dropped the cost per unit drastically

Answer 29

Assembly-line production

Question 30

airplane

Answer 30

Wright

Question 31

Model T®

Answer 31

Ford

Question 32

light bulb

Answer 32

Edison

Question 33

transatlantic cable

Answer 33

Field

Question 34

telephone

Answer 34

Bell

Question 35

Ford's competitor

Answer 35

Olds

Question 36

oil well

Answer 36

Drake

Question 37

Sources of power in America by the early 1900s included

Answer 37

oil, coal, electricity, and water power

Question 38

committee appointed by the president for corporation control

Answer 38

Federal Trade Commission

Question 39

fought illegal competition methods

Answer 39

Clayton Antitrust Act

Question 40

President enforcing early antitrust laws

Answer 40

Roosevelt

Question 41

experts in business management

Answer 41

business specialists

Question 42

merging of several businesses into one

Answer 42

consolidation

Question 43

investors in corporations

Answer 43

stockholders

Question 44

exclusive control of a product

Answer 44

monopoly

Question 45

Advantages that corporations brought to the United States included

Answer 45

decreased unemployment, lower prices, quality goods, a larger variety of merchandise, and increased production