Block# Name Key… INB p. 45 USII.4de: Use Textbook Chapter 6 pages 88-99, your study guides, or Blue Book pages 31-32 and 36 to answer the following questions. This IS for a class grade so do your best! 1. What are two inventions that created great change and industrial growth in the United States and who invented them?
*Electric lighting and mechanical uses of electricity by Thomas Edison
*Telephone Service by Alexander Graham Bell
2. What are the 4 reasons for the rise and prosperity of big business?
* National markets created by transportation advances
* Captains of Industry (if students ask they do not list these men here, but will on number 3 below)
* Advertising
* Lower cost production
3. Complete the chart with the 4 Captains of Industry and the Industry each man is known for:
Captain (first and last name) Industry known for: John D. Rockefeller Oil Andrew Carnegie Steel Henry Ford Automobile Cornelius Vanderbilt Shipping & Railroads
4. Lower-cost production was due to the assembly line created by Henry Ford. 5. National Markets were created by transportation advances. What transportation advancement would this be? The Transcontinental Railroad 6. The 4 factors that resulted in the growth of industry are:
* Access to raw materials and energy
*Availability of the work force due to immigration
*Inventions
*Financial Resources
7. List the 3 examples of Big Business:
*Railroads
*Oil *Steel
8. How did industrialization and the rise in big business influence life on American farms?
Postwar changes in farm and city life are: 1.Mechanization reduced farm labor needs & increased production (the reaper) 2.Industrial development in cities created increased labor needs 3. Industrialization provided access to consumer goods (such as the mail order catalog)
9. An example of mechanization would be the reaper. What did this farm tool do?
It reduced farm labor needs and increased production.
10. How did people during this time period get access to consumer goods?
The mail order catalog.
11. Using the chart below, list the NEGATIVE effects of industrialization and then write the Progressive Movement Workplace Reforms. Keep them in relation to one another:
Negative Effects: Progressive Movement Workplace Reforms:
1. Child Labor 1. Placed restrictions on Child Labor
2. Low wages, long hours 2. Reduced work hours
3. Unsafe working conditions 3. Improved Safety Conditions
12. How did workers respond to the negative effects of industrialization?
With the Rise of Organized Labor. This was when the formation of Unions was created, especially the
growth of the American Federation of Labor. Strikes such as theHomestead Strike took place in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the aftermath resulted in non-union workers accepting lower wages.
13. The word “suffrage” means: The right to vote.
14. Women’s Suffrage resulted in:
*Increased educational opportunities for women *Attained voting rights for women
15. Women gained the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
16. Name two women who are known for working for women’s suffrage:
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
17. What was the Temperance Movement composed of? Groups who were opposed to
the making and consumption of alcoholic beverages.
18. What amendment supported the Temperance Movement?
The 18th Amendment
19. What did the 18th Amendment prohibit? The manufacture, transport and
sale of alcoholic beverages.
20. What were 2 purposes of the Progressive Movement? (see textbook pages 96-97)
*To set out to make needed changes (page 96)
*To fix all that was broken in American society (page 97, first sentence)