2nd Industrial Revolution (SS.912.A.3.2)

What was Populism’s main legacy? 

• Populism had no lasting impact upon American life.
• By opposing the interests of small farmers, Populism helped speed the rise of urban areas.
• c. Populism showed that impoverished people could organize to have an impact upon the national political system.
• The movement showed that the eastern financial establishment would always support the political aspirations of impoverished farmers and wage earners.

What problem in American industry did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (1906) expose? 

• fraud in the banking system
• political machines utilizing graft
• unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants for the workers and animals
• unsafe working conditions for children in coal mines

How did political machines gain influence in big cities during the late 19^th and 20^th centuries? 

• They helped women organize protests in their fight for suffrage.
• They consolidated business power in the hands of the bosses and ignored immigrants.
• They hired political bosses at the top of a business pyramid who would quit and become mayors.
• They offered services to voters, immigrants, and businesses in exchange for political and financial support.

The passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act is representative of what popular American movement in the 1880s?

• Foundation of Populism
• The rise of nativism  {the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.}
• Separation from the gold standard
• Decrease in foreign run labor unions

How did workplace incidents like the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire influence the labor movement?

• incidents led to increased federal regulations for workplace safety
• labor unions began to strike for increased pay
• females were banned from factory jobs
• factory owners decided to increase workplace safety and lose profits

What was the main purpose of legislation like the Sherman Anti-Trust Act or Clayton Anti-Trust Act?

• to increase competition in business
• to protect the environment
• to encourage growth of monopolies
• to strengthen the rights of workers

How did muckrakers like Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair influence the federal government?

• to end racial discrimination in the workplace
• to force individual states to regulate monopolies
• to pass legislation to correct harmful business practices
• to grant citizenship to people who had entered the country illegally

The process depicted in the image above best represents what business model?

• Horizontal Integration
• Bessemer Process
• Vertical Integration
• Carnegie-Rockefeller Transmogrification 

Which of the following describes how one of the inventions would enable factories to produce more goods by extending hours of production?

• The ice machine helped workers stay cool in the summer.

• The light bulb made it possible to consistently light work spaces.

• The automatic loom allowed factories to produce more woven material.

• The telephone opened lines of communication between suppliers and factories

What statement best characterizes the principle of laissez faire? 

• It’s the responsibility of the government to regulate business practices.
• Riches are a sign of God’s favor and poor people are inferior and deserve living in poverty.
• To succeed in business a firm should buy out all of its competitors and completely control an industry’s production, wages, and prices.
• The marketplace should have no regulations and natural selection governs business success or failure.