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What was one motive the United States government provided subsidies and land grants to railroad companies in the 1800s?

• To help create well paying jobs for more people
• To convince banks that railroads were good investments
• To create railroad networks that spanned the entire country
• To prevent railroads from going bankrupt

What were industrial leaders (Like Rockefeller in Oil Industry and Carnegie in Steel Industry) able to do by creating monopolies and establishing trusts?

• secured the election of William McKinley as president in 1897.
• make vast amounts of wealth by limiting competition, cutting production costs, and controlling prices.   
• secured passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. 
• caused the Panic of 1893

This person changed American businesses and homes with the invention of the electric light bulb (allow factories to be lit and operate twenty-four hours a day, and illuminated buildings, streets, and neighborhoods):

• Richard Sears
• George Westinghouse
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison

In the 19th century, John D. Rockefeller was MOST associated with what corporation?

• Standard Oil
• American Telephone and Telegraph
• U.S. Steel 
• General Motors Corporation

What method of communication became extremely important by the end of the nineteenth century because of its use in coordinating rail travel?

• Telephone
• Pony Express
• Telegraph
• Television

Rockefeller combined his many companies to create Standard Oil Trust forming a monopoly (eliminate competition) on the oil market which

• allowed him to set the price for oil, but hurt the consumer who paid a higher price.
• did not affect him, the consumer, or the price of oil
• led to massive riots across the US that forced Rockefeller to sell the Standard Oil Trust to the government
• made the price of oil drop because consumers had many options to choose from for oil

Which of the following terms is MOST associated with Industrialization in the late 1800s?

• Urbanization
• Manifest Destiny
• Rebellion
• Agriculture

In the late 1800's and early 1900's, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas?

• immigrants were not permitted to buy farmland
• labor unions provided low cost housing in the cities
• government limitations required immigrants to settle in cities
• the ready availability of industrial jobs

What was the official entry point for immigrants arriving to the east coast of the United States?

• Angel Island (more strict and rigorous process and discriminatory against Chinese)
• Ellis Island (less stringent immigrant process to enter US, 40% of all Americans today can trace their port of entry back to this location)
• Book of Registration
• Statue of Liberty

In the late-1800s, where were the immigrants from who faced discrimination that arrived on the west coast? The United States government even prohibited them from immigrating into the country.

• Germany 
• Ireland
• Japan
• China