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Chapter 8

Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 
Which of the following inventions were developed by Thomas Edison?
a.
typewriter, refrigerated rail car, automatic engine-oiling machine
b.
motor-driven vacuum cleaner, cash register, milking machine
c.
motion picture projector, electric power plant, phonograph
d.
electric streetcar, passenger elevator brake, shoemaking machine
 

 2. 
How did imigrants adapt to life in the United States?
a.
by acculturating
c.
by building tenements
b.
by joining nativist movements
d.
by frequently relocating
 

 3. 
Who is the man that used the Bessemer Process to manufacture steel?
a.
John D Rockefeller
c.
Samuel Gompers
b.
Andrew Carnegie
d.
John Carnegie
 

 4. 
In 1876, this inventor invented the telephone so communication could take place from hundreds of miles away?
a.
Thomas Edison
c.
Henry Bessemer
b.
Nicholas Bell
d.
Alaexander G. Bell
 

 5. 
______________________ invented a process to make steel.
a.
Henry Bessemer
c.
John D. Rockefeller
b.
Andrew Carnegie
d.
Thomas Edison
 

 6. 
Most Americans believed that buying Alaska was not a good idea.  This was called __________________.
a.
Bessemer Process
c.
El Nino
b.
Pangia
d.
Sewards Folly
 

 7. 
Hawaii and Alaska became states in what year?
a.
1859
c.
1959
b.
1995
d.
1895
 

 8. 
A ______________________ is a narrow strip of land that links two larger pieces of land.
a.
island
c.
river
b.
isthmus
d.
drive
 

 9. 
What linked the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?
a.
Panama Canal
c.
Indian Ocean
b.
United States
d.
Gulf of Mexico
 

 10. 
Who formed the Standard Oil Company?
a.
Adrew Carnegie
c.
Beverly Hillbillies
b.
The Standard Oil People
d.
John D. Rockefeller
 

 11. 
Why was Alaska so important?
a.
Its natural resources
c.
Its beautiful beaches
b.
Its location
d.
Its snow and ice is pretty
 

 12. 
APPLYING YOUR SKILLS

      Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876.  Of all the new machines that
      were invented in the late 1800’s, the telephone might be the most important.  It let
      people talk to each other when they were in different places.  Friends and relatives
      who lived in different parts of the country could talk over long distances.  I believe
      that American businesses improved their communications and became extremely
      successful because of the telephone.

What did the telephone let people do?
a.
talk to each other when they were in different places
b.
live in different parts of the country
c.
learn math by using the numbers on the telephone
d.
it helped people to have better listening skills by listening to the operator
 

 13. 
In the passage in #12, what did Alexander G. Bell invent in 1876?
a.
telescope
c.
phonograph
b.
telegraph
d.
telephone
 

 14. 
In the passage in #12, is the last sentence of this passage a fact or opinion?
a.
fact
b.
opinion
 

Matching
 
 
a.
monopoly
g.
Queen Liliuokalani
b.
corporation
h.
Labor Union
c.
strike
i.
Theodore Roosevelt
d.
slum
j.
Standard Oil Company
e.
Samuel Gompers
k.
William Seward
f.
Thomas Edison
l.
Persecution
 

 15. 
a company that has no competition
 

 16. 
when workers refuse to work
 

 17. 
a business in which many people own shares, or parts of the business
 

 18. 
poor, crowded part of a city
 

 19. 
an organization of workers that tries to improve pay and working conditions
 

 20. 
invented over 1,000 inventions including the phonograph and lightbulb
 

 21. 
ruler who did not want Hawaii to become part of the United States
 

 22. 
first president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)
 

 23. 
convinced Congress to buy Alaska
 

 24. 
prejudice
 

 25. 
president during the construction of the Panama Canal
 

 26. 
formed by John D. Rockafeller which make fuel and lamp oil
 



 
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