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Twenty Question Review

Discover key economic systems, inventions, and figures that shaped America’s industrialization, from railroads to labor unions. Learn about entrepreneurs, innovations, and social reforms that transformed the nation.

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Twenty Question Review

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  1. Twenty Question Review Chapter 15 A Changing America

  2. What is an economic system in which people are able to start and run their own business? Free Enterprise System

  3. Who is a person who takes a chance starting a business? Entrepreneur

  4. What is a refinery? A place where crude, or raw, oil is made into usable products.

  5. What made many inland cities important centers of industry? railroads

  6. What is aviation? Technology of air transportation

  7. What is a poorly built apartment building? A tenement

  8. What is a federation? An organization made of many groups.

  9. What is a railroad linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts? Transcontinental railroad

  10. Who invented the telephone? Alexander Graham Bell

  11. Who invented the first phonograph? Thomas Edison

  12. Who invented the first electric bulb? Thomas Edison

  13. What is a system of mass production? Assembly line

  14. What is a labor union? A group of workers who take action to improve working conditions.

  15. Who was Samuel Gompers? He helped to create the American Federation of Labor.(AFL)

  16. Who was Jane Addams? She started Hull House in Chicago.

  17. What is a settlement house? This is a community center where people could learn new skills.

  18. Who created the skyscraper? William Jenney

  19. What did John D. Rockefeller set up? An oil refinery

  20. Who made the first flight in Kitty Hawk, NC? Orville and Wilbur Wright

  21. That’s All! Keep Sharp Minds!

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