Deck 5: Technological Systems and Industrial Society

Question 1

People in agricultural societies are primarily dependent on

A) each other.
B) nature.
C) government.
D) trade.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Samuel

A) electricity.
B) Morse invented
B) the telegraph.
C) the telephone.
D) Morse code.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The integration of the railroad system was pioneered by

A) government.
B) private companies.
C) investors.
D) the military.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

One of the earliest uses of oil was

A) making gas for cars.
B) lubrication of machinery.
C) powering locomotives.
D) running the telegraph system.

Question 5

Congress passed the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1890 because it was worried about

A) inventions run wild.
B) the rapid pace of industrialization.
C) the growth of monopolies.
D) the division of wealth.

Question 6

Thomas Edison invented

A) safety bulbs.
B) electricity.
C) streetcars.
D) lightbulbs.

Question 7

Industrialization makes people (more/less) __________ dependent on each other.

Question 8

John
D. Rockefeller took over the oil industry by gaining a monopoly over __________.

Question 9

Alexander Graham Bell invented the __________.

Question 10

Bell Telephone Company created a(n) __________ system of telephones.

Question 11

Industrialization created a new kind of society, characterized by new social and economic __________.

Question 12

Industrialization caused people to move to cities, creating __________.

Question 13

Technological systems in an industrial society are no more complex than those in an agricultural society.

Question 14

At first, telegraph lines were used only by the government.

Question 15

Time zones were invented by railroad companies.

Question 16

Independent telephone companies worked their way into the market because the Bell Company had not considered that telephones would be used for personal purposes.

Question 17

Edison's company outsources most of the development of the infrastructure of the electrical system.

Question 18

Edison's electrical system eventually powered thousands of new inventions.

Question 19

Match the inventor to the technological system.

-Thomas Edison

A) telegraph
B) electricity
C)telephone

Question 20

Match the inventor to the technological system.

-Samuel F.B. Morse

A) telegraph
B) electricity
C)telephone

Question 21

Match the inventor to the technological system.

-Alexander Graham Bell

A) telegraph
B) electricity
C)telephone

Question 22

Match the businessman to the business that made him wealthy.

-Leland Stanford

A) Finance
B) Electricity
C) Oil
D) Railroads
E) Telephones

Question 23

Match the businessman to the business that made him wealthy.

-Rockefeller

A) Finance
B) Electricity
C) Oil
D) Railroads
E) Telephones

Question 24

Match the businessman to the business that made him wealthy.

-Thomas Edison

A) Finance
B) Electricity
C) Oil
D) Railroads
E) Telephones

Question 25

Match the businessman to the business that made him wealthy.

-Alexander Graham Bell

A) Finance
B) Electricity
C) Oil
D) Railroads
E) Telephones

Question 26

Match the businessman to the business that made him wealthy.

-P. Morgan

A) Finance
B) Electricity
C) Oil
D) Railroads
E) Telephones