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Growth Of Cities
Test Description: USII.4b
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) Which person and invention belong together?
A
telegraph service – Eli Whitney
B
electric lighting – Henry Bessemer
C
telephone service – Alexander Graham Bell
D
cotton gin - Henry Ford
2) The movement of Americans from the rural (country) areas to the urban (city) areas helps explain -
A
why businesses reduced capital spending.
B
commercial businesses were not using natural resources.
C
specialized industries located mainly in the cities, such as meatpacking.
D
the accelerated development of rural life in the Northeast.
3) Poor, crowded, hazardous, unemployment, unhealthy could BEST describe
A
tenements
B
country life.
C
prospecting
D
a farmer’s life.
4) The ghettos were usually divided by what?
A
reformists
B
religion
C
immigrant groups
D
political parties
5) Pittsburgh is to steel as Chicago is to -
A
automobiles.
B
meatpacking.
C
oil.
D
textiles.
6) Who contributed to great changes and industrial growth through his lighting and mechanical uses of electricity?
A
Eli Whitney
B
Eli Whitney
C
Robert Fulton
D
Thomas Edison
7) Which group of immigrants fled their homeland due to a potato famine?
A
Irish
B
Germans
C
Japanese
D
Chinese
8) Refrigerated railroad cars transported meat from the processing industry located in
A
Philadelphia
B
Saint Louis.
C
Pittsburgh
D
Chicago
9) The significance of refrigerated cars was to -
A
link the iron and coal industries.
B
transport beef from Chicago to national markets.
C
link the east and west coasts.
D
transport raw materials to western cities.
10) Which series of states would geographically comprise a part of the Southeast?
A
Georgia, Kansas, Alabama
B
North Dakota, North Carolina, South Dakota
C
Georgia, Florida, Virginia
D
New York, New Jersey, Idaho
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