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Grade 5 Industrialization
Who forced New York Central to sell their rail line so he could control the 4,500 miles of railroad track connecting New York with the Great Lakes region?
  1. Andrew Carnegie
  2. John D. Rockefeller
  3. J.P. Morgan
  4. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Grade 5 Industrialization
What does "Industrialization" mean?
  1. The movement from the country to the city
  2. A plan to put the country back together
  3. An order that requires a prisoner to appear before a judge
  4. A change in circumstances accompanying a society's movement population and resources from farm production to manufacturing production
Grade 5 Industrialization

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A person who donates large amounts of money to universities, scientific and medical research centers and projects that help others is called a(n)
  1. historian
  2. industrial leader
  3. philanthropist
  4. inventor
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Technology can be defined as:
  1. ONLY electronics
  2. new ideas about how to do something and the equipment needed to do it.
  3. Computers
  4. anything that needs electricity in order to work.
Grade 5 Industrialization
Cyrus McCormick, a farmer, perfected the mechanical reaper in 1834.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Industrialization
Who is credited with inventing the telegraph?
  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. M. Daguerre
  3. Marcus Whitman
  4. Samuel Morse
Grade 5 Industrialization
What were the "labor laws" trying to do/change?
  1. Separate the North from the South
  2. End the Revolutionary War
  3. Create safer working conditions
  4. Remove "Carpetbaggers" from the south
Grade 5 Industrialization
The invention of the sewing machine and the typewriter provided new job opportunities in clothing factories and offices of which of the following groups of people?
  1. African Americans
  2. Farmers
  3. Children
  4. Women
Grade 5 Industrialization
Who was the first American millionaire?
  1. Thomas Jefferson
  2. Andrew Jackson
  3. John Jacob Astor
  4. Sam Houston
Grade 5 Industrialization
Because of the winds from the ocean, the Wright Brothers flew their first powered airplane here.
  1. Pearl Harbor, HI
  2. Montgomery, AL
  3. Savannah, GA
  4. Kitty Hawk, NC
Grade 5 Industrialization
Which law protected Americans from being charged too much for using railroads and steamboats?
  1. the First Amendment
  2. the Civil Service Act
  3. the Sherman Antitrust Act
  4. the Interstate Commerce Act
Grade 5 Industrialization

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Who was responsible for the Trans-Atlantic Cable?
  1. Samuel Morse
  2. Cyrus Field
  3. John Brown
  4. Bill Cody
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What invention made it possible for people to move to the outskirts of the cities to live and commute to work?
  1. Transcontinental Railroad
  2. Plane
  3. Wagon
  4. Electric Streetcar
Grade 5 Industrialization
Which of the following inventions were invented by Eli Whitney?
  1. Interchangeable Parts
  2. Disassembly Line
  3. Incandescent Light Bulb
  4. Telephone
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As American industrialization progressed, many labor laws were passed in an effort to
  1. separate the North from the South.
  2. clamp down on the rights of workers.
  3. create safer working conditions.
  4. remove "Carpetbaggers" from the south.
Grade 5 Industrialization
M. Daguerre invented the
  1. phonograph
  2. photograph
  3. telegraph
  4. light bulb
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A U. S. city that was a major producer of steel. Andrew Carnegie had owned companies here.
  1. Pittsburg, PA
  2. Atlanta, GA
  3. Kitty Hawk, NC
  4. Montgomery, AL
Grade 5 Industrialization
Who was the inventor of the "Assembly Line?"
  1. Abraham Lincoln
  2. Henry Ford
  3. George Washington
  4. Robert E Lee
Grade 5 Industrialization
The National Labor Relations Board made a big change in business by allowing workers to form groups within companies called
  1. New Deal
  2. Committees
  3. Labor Unions
  4. the AAA
Grade 5 Industrialization
What were the first words sent by the electric telegraph?
  1. "Fifty-four forty or fight."
  2. "Oh, say can you see."
  3. "Four score and seven years ago."
  4. "What hath God wrought?"
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