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What did the Assembly Line Improve?

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Industrial Revolution

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1
Which is NOT a Characteristic of a Robber Baron
Corrupts Public Officials
Organizes the factors of production
Pays Poor Wages
Drives out Competitors
2
What did the Assembly Line Improve?
Productivity
Slavery
Entrepreneurship
Ideas
3
Who provided the work during the Industrial Revolution?
Slaves
Immigrants
None of the above
Canadians
4
How did Rockefeller make all his money?
Railroad development
Steel industry
Standardizes kerosene production
All of the above
5
Which of the following is a necessary ingredient for industrialization?
Assembly Line
Entrepreneurs
Positive attitudes
A hot climate
6
What is the paradox of progress written by Henry George in "the paradox of capitalist growth?"
Everything is awful
As progress increases, so does poverty
Rich get richer, poor get poorer
Everything is amazing, no one is happy
7
What is a paradox?
A statement that contradicts itself but is false
A statement that contradicts but is true
It is a truth thats really really true
A headache
8
Which of the following is a "cost" associated with progress?
Quality of life
All of the above
Childhood
The Environment
9
How was America transformed because of the Industrial Revolution?
More efficient production
More GDP
Innovative technology
All of the above
10
Which of the following explains why meat is produced the way it is described in “The Jungle”?
Rise of train transportation
Mass Production
Tenement Housing
Positive government policy