<p>Name______Inventors Change the World Chapter 4 – Lesson One</p><p>Study Guide Notes</p><p>Vocabulary investor: </p><p>People</p><p>Alexander Graham Bell: </p><p>Thomas Edison: </p><p>Lewis Latimer: </p><p>Frank Sprague: </p><p>Frank and Charles Duryea: </p><p>Blanche Stuart Scott: </p><p>Comprehension</p><p>1. Why was it important for Bell and Watson to be the first to invent the telephone?</p><p>2. What events in Alexander Graham Bell’s life led up to his invention of the telephone?</p><p>3. What advantages might an electric light bulb have over a lamp fueled by gas or candles? 4. What did Edison mean when he said “I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work”?</p><p>5. How did Thomas Edison and Lewis Latimer each contribute to the effort to make a working light bulb?</p><p>6. Why did Edison want to build the first power station?</p><p>7. Why did Edison decide to build a power station in New York City?</p><p>8. What can you infer about the power of electricity compared to the power of horses?</p><p>9. What other industries might be affected by the growth of the car industry?</p><p>10. What advantages did electric streetcars have over horse-drawn carriages?</p><p>11. After deciding to build a plane, what steps did the Wright brothers take to achieve their goal?</p><p>12. What was one effect of the inventions you read about in this lesson? Name______The Rise of Big Business Chapter 4 – Lesson Two</p><p>Study Guide Notes</p><p>Vocabulary corporation: stock: monopoly: free enterprise: consumer: human resource: capital resource: </p><p>People Andrew Carnegie: </p><p>John D. Rockefeller: </p><p>George Westinghouse: </p><p>William Randolph Hearst: </p><p>Madame C. J. Walker: J.P. Morgan: Comprehension 1. How did the steel industry change after 1856?</p><p>2. How did Carnegie’s control of the production process allow him to produce steel at a lower cost?</p><p>3. Why would people decide to buy a corporation’s stock?</p><p>4. Why did many railroad companies form corporations?</p><p>5. What problems are monopolies trying to solve? What problem do they create?</p><p>6. What effect did the rise of the car industry have on the oil industry?</p><p>7. How might companies compete for consumers?</p><p>8. Why did Westinghouse win the “War of the Currents”?</p><p>9. What key role do banks play in American business?</p><p>10. Define the three types of resources (natural, human, and capital).</p><p>11. How did growing businesses lead to the growth of cities? 12. Who filled many of the new jobs created by the growing businesses and industries?</p>