10 questions multiple chose Quiz in Industrial America in 15 minutes

QUESTION 1

  1. How did the establishment of national parks affect the railroad industry?

QUESTION 2

  1. Religious persecution led to the increased immigration of what nationality of people beginning in the 1880s?

3 points

QUESTION 3

  1. Which of the following resulted from the opening of large coal deposits in the United States in the late 1800s?

3 points

QUESTION 4

  1. What was an immediate result of the widespread use of the Bessemer converter in the U.S. steel industry?

3 points

QUESTION 5

  1. Which book documented the poverty resulting from urbanization in late nineteenth-century New York?

3 points

QUESTION 6

  1. The Second Industrial Revolution that followed the Civil War was characterized by which of the following?

3 points

QUESTION 7

  1. What did the method of manufacturing known as the American system rely upon?

3 points

QUESTION 8

  1. In what way did the use of new types of machinery negatively impact industry in the United States?

3 points

QUESTION 9

  1. What was the most common reason immigrants came to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century?

3 points

QUESTION 10

  1. Which event was most crucial in steam becoming the leading energy source in the United States by the year 1900?