By the 1920s, most americans were looking for jobs in question 1 options: farms the west factories schools in 1870, most americans were question 2 options: farmers miners teachers factory workers goerge bissell and thomas alva edison were the first to successfully drill oil commercially in 1859. true false beginning in the second half of the 1800s, most factories started to switch over to power from fossil fuels. fossil fuels could be (select all that apply): question 5 options: natural gas water petroleum coal