Expanding America

Entrepreneurs Vol 3 Expanding America	Name _______________________________________
February 22, 1999

1. What was the population of the US in 1800 (200 years ago)?

1 million

4 million

10 million

2. How many days to travel from Boston to New York in 1800?

1 day

4 days

8 days

3. In 1800, how far inland from the Atlantic coast to the most distant settlements?	50 miles	250 miles	2,000 miles
4. What was America's first large scale transportation project?	Interstate Highways	Transcontinental Railroad	Erie Canal
5. Who championed the Erie Canal?	Thomas Jefferson	Eli Whitney	Dewitt Clinton
6. How long was the original Erie Canal?	57 miles	364 miles	1,286 miles
7. What advantages did the Erie Canal offer? (More than one advantage)	Reduced shipping costs	Reduced travel time	Greater safety
8. In 1825, when the Erie Canal was completed, what was America's fastest growing city?	New York	Boston	Buffalo

9. In 1848, what event sparked American interest in the far West?	Los Angeles World's Fair	Gold at Sutter's Mill	Transcontinental railroad
10. How many traveled west on the Oregon Trail?	5,000	50,000	500,000
11. How many died on the Oregon Trail?	100	1,000	5,000

12. What services did Henry Wells and William Fargo offer to San Francisco in 1852 when they opened the first Wells Fargo office? (more than one)

Mail service

Assay gold

Ship gold

Issue checks

Guaranteed delivery

Stage coach travel

13. How much did a one-way ticket to San Francisco cost on a Wells Fargo stagecoach?	$50	$300	$3,000
14. According to the commentator (Alfred Chandler), what was America's first 'big business'?	Textiles	Railroads	Steel
15. The first railroads appeared in the early 1830s. By 1860 (less than 30 years later) what percentage of the American population was dependent on the railroads?	10%	40%	90%

16. What advantages did the railroads offer over roads and canals? (more than one)

Less subject to seasonal closings

Faster

Greater carrying capacity

Less expensive to build

Greater safety

17. How many years of debate over public financing for the first transcontinental railroad?	2	30
18. How many years of construction for the first continental rairoad?	1	4
19. When did the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific meet at Promontory Point, Utah, to complete the first transcontinental rail link?	1848	1869

20. How many transcontinental rail links by 1900?

21. What steps did James J. Hill take to encourage settlement and economic development along the route of his Great Northern Railroad? (more than one)

Sent agents to Europe to recruit workers and farmers

Provided free seed to farmers willing to plant wheat

Imported special breeding cattle

Provided delivery of sheep and pigs at cost

Gave farmers shares of Great Northern stock

22. When Henry Ford built the '999' in 1902, he was responding to the American desire for?	Reliable, durable transportation	Speed and racing
23. In what year did Henry Ford create the Ford Motor Company	1895	1903
24. How many times had Ford gone bankrupt before 1903?	2	15
25. What was the first full year of production for the Model T? (The first were actually produced in 1908)	1909	1927
26. In what year did Ford institute the moving assembly line?	1913	1927

27. According to the commentator (Alfred Chandler) what was the secret to Ford's success with the Model T?
(more than one)

"Big investment"

"Single product"

"Price rebates"

28. With the moving assembly line, Ford was able to reduce the labor input required for assembling a Model T to what?

6 hours

93 minutes

29. By 1927 (the last year of production) Ford had built 15 million Model T's (not 50 million). In that year, General Motors surpassed Ford in the sale of automobiles. GM success was based on the innovations of Alfred Sloan. What were some of the areas where the video claims Sloan and GM brought innovation to the auto industry? (more than one -- you'll find even more in your readings)

Styling

Choices of colors

Self-starter

V-8

Automatic transmission

Installment buying

Used car trades

30. According to the video, Ford lost several hundreds of millions of dollars between 1927 and 1937. During the same period, GM returned profits of?	$700 million	$2 billion
31. The Wright brothers first flew in 1903. Another event, however, marks the real start of the aviation industry. What was that event?	The 1907 World's Fair	World War I, 1914-1918
32. Following World War I, 1914-1918, the market was glutted with surplus military airplanes and engines. Barnstormers could buy either a surplus Jenny or an engine for as little as?	$10,000	$100
33. The event that marks the real start of commercial aviation? (Subsidized by Congress -- still not profitable on its own)	The Kelly Act of 1925 (allowed private carriers to fly airmail)	Passenger Service (Opening of airports in New York and Chicago)
34. What was the real significance of Lindbergh's 33 hour solo flight from New York to Paris in 1927.	Launched the first passenger sevice	Sparked the public imagination
35. What was Juan Terry Tripp's 'secret' for establishing Pan American (Pan Am) as a profitable airline?	Crossing water	Fuel efficiency
36. At first, which was the bigger problem for Tripp?	Getting mail contracts	Getting passengers

37. At first (1920s), Tripp concentrated Pan Am on what region of the world?	Carribean and Latin America	The Far East	Europe
38. Later (1930s), Pan Am made its mark by establishing routes across the Atlantic and to which other area of the world?	Africa	Russia	Asia
39. In 1954, Boeing launched what airplane? (1954 for the military version [a tanker] and 1958 for the commercial model)	DC-3	707	Electra
40. In 1951, Albert Ueltschi started Flight Safety based on what technology?	Disaster salvage	Flight simulators	Radar
41. By the late 1980s (when the video was made), Fight Saftey had provided services to how many pilots?	1,000	25,000	240,000
42. In 1982 Deke Slayton and David Hannah claimed an important first. What was it?	First U.S. commercial space launch	First non-stop flight around the world	First double parachute jump from an altitude greater than 75,000 feet