Quiz

(Write answers on a separate sheet of paper)

1. What part of the Industrial Revolution was in the 1860’s?

a. Part 1

b. Part 2

b. Part 3

c. d. Part 4

2. What 4 races of people were recruited to work on the railroad?

a. Spanish, African Americans, Indonesians, and Indians

b. Canadians, Americans, Indians, and Guadalupe’s

c. African Americans, Irish immigrants, American Indians, Chinese immigrants

3. How many miles of track had the Union Pacific laid by May of 1869?

a. 1,069 miles

b. 2,000 miles

c. 1,100 miles

d. 10,000 miles

4. Why had the Central Pacific laid less track of the railroad?

a. Lack of food

b. Less people

c. Hit water

d. Sierra Nevada Mountains

5. What date was the Transcontinental Railroad joined?

a. May 10^th, 1869

b. January 18^th, 1860

c. May 21^st, 1900

d. December 11^th, 1867

6. What was one effect of the railroad?

a. America’s economy grew

b. People were splitting the nation

c. Less food was brought to the East

d. No one lived in the West

7. What is the process to make steel called?

a. Formation

b. Bee process

c. Bessemer process

d. Steel process

8. What is the Iron alloy mixed with to produce steel?

a. Water

b. Milk

c. Carbon

d. Air

9. What did Nikola use to power his generator for a cheap source of energy?

a. A pond

b. Niagara Falls

c. Wind mills

d. A river

10. In what year did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb?

a. 1850

b. 1867

c. 1897

d. 1879

11. Who invented the telephone?

a. Alexander Bell

b. John Elway

c. Thomas Edison

d. Merriam Webster

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