Industry & Immigration Part 2

As farms became mechanized

• immigrants bought more land.
• more people became farmers.
• farmers moved to urban areas.
• farm workers became rural entrepreneurs.

In which system does one company control the businesses that make up all phases of a product’s development?

• vertical integration
• trust
• horizontal integration
• cartel

In the late 1800's, workers tolerated poor wages because

• thought that the government would protect them. 
• believed it had to get worse before it got better.
• were tricked by employers into taking dangerous jobs.
• could be replaced easily by other workers.

Which group of people made up the majority of immigrants to America   before 1870?

• European Protestants
• Scandinavian Catholics
• Chinese Buddhists
• South American Jews

The first reliable streetcars were powered by what?

• Electricity
• Gasoline
• Coal
• Animals

After the Civil War, the cost of living decreased because 

• consumers wanted imported goods.
• sanitation and medical care improved.
• men took public transportation to work.
• technology made manufacturing more efficient.

Which innovation extended the number of hours in a day that Americans  could work and play?

• Bessemer process 
• refrigeration
• telegraph technology
• electricity

Corporations had the important advantage of 

• being run by an individual or a family.
• developing into monopolies. 
• keeping prices high.
• reducing the financial risk for individual investors. 

At processing stations, officials met with immigrants to determine their medical condition and

• legal standing.
• religious preferences.
• educational level.
• political beliefs.

Even though unlit city streets were dangerous,

• factory workers had to travel to and from work in the dark.
• city governments rejected electric streetlights.
• most city planners did nothing about it.
• professional police officers refused to patrol them.