8th Grade Review 1

The sometimes unethical business practices of some industrialists led them to be given this nickname

• Captains of Industry
• Tycoons
• Fat Cats
• Robber Barons

What is a Laissez-Faire economy?

• An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that works best when there is very little involvement by the U.S. government
• An economy that is controlled by another country

When handmade products were replaced by machines and mass production

• industrialization
• revitalization
• reconstruction
• urbanization

Industry caused urbanization because...

• People moved out of cities in order to find jobs
• People moved to cities because that's where jobs were
• Cities were very appealing to people who grew up in rural areas
• The railroad allowed people to move East easier

The biggest oil company in the US during the period 1865-1900 was created by 

• JP Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 18
• 19
• 20
• 21

Which Third Party nominated former President Theodore Roosevelt as their candidate?

• Democat
• Green
• Socialist
• Bull Moose

Teddy Roosevelt reduced the power of these types of businesses which controlled the American economy?

• horizontal monopolies
• small businesses
• corporations
• trusts

Journalists who exposed graft and corruption is society were known as: 

• socialists
• trouble makers
• muckrakers
• bull moosers

Immigration push factors are…

• reasons people come to a new place
• reasons people leave their homelands
• reasons people begin working
• reasons people stop working

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