Immigration and Industry 2

In 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country for 10 years.

• Ireland
• Japan
• Mexico
• China

Which of these is the BEST explanation of the impact of the railroads played on the growing trend of urbanization in the early-to-mid-1800s?

• They made the need for steel obsolete
• People could now vacation in places far away
• Raw and manufactured goods could be transported more easily.
• They replaced cars as the most common form of transportation

Which of these is not associated with Thomas Edison

• telephone
• microphone
• motion-picture camera
• incandescent light bulb

The Industrial Age in all of the United States is MOST associated with which era?

• early-1800s
• early-1900s
• late-1700s
• late-1800s

What inventor revolutionized agricultural production in the U.S. through his work in developing the steel plow?

• John Deere 
• Elisha Otis
• Andrew Chase
• Thomas Edison

This term refers to large businesses such as Standard Oil, during the Gilded age, that controlled nearly all of the market of a particular product.

• corporations
• monopolies
• non-profits
• small businesses

Businessmen during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century often favored relaxed immigration laws because they 

• remembered their immigrant heritage
• were advocates of multicultural education
• were supporters of the Temperance Movement
• valued cheap and relatively unskilled labor

The ending of the Pullman Strike is significant because it

• demonstrated union's superiority and solidarity 
• demonstrated the US government's support of worker's rights
• demonstrated he US government's pro-business alliances
• showed that the US government was unwilling to get involved in business matters

In order to help expand railroads throughout the country after the Civil War, Congress 

• brought in thousands of laborers from China
• provided railroad companies land free of charge
• spent tax money researching steam engine technology
• taxed the Confederate States heavily to fund construction

Which of the following descriptions best describes "horizontal" integration?

• the economic development of the American West
• when the government controls the factors of production
• a company owns all the businesses that supply it with raw goods
• a company acquires competing businesses and merges them in to a single entity