5-3.4 Review

How did muckrakers impact the Progressive Movement in the United States?

• They exposed corporate power and unsafe working conditions.

• They supported laissez-faire capitalism.

• They supported political machines.

• They provided propaganda that helped drive stock prices up and increase business wealth.

How did the industrialization of farming practices impact the lives of most farmers?

• New equipment and better practices allowed farming to become the wealthiest business in the country.

• More crops could be produced and demand grew, and this increased farmer wealth.

• More crops could be produced, but farmers made less money because a surplus decreased prices.

• The high costs of buying new equipment caused most farmers to go bankrupt.

Men such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller are most closely associated with what field?

• business

• government

• sports

• warfare

How did President Theodore Roosevelt gain the nickname, "The Trust-Buster"?

• Roosevelt defended businesses' right to abuse and take advantage of the consumer.

• Roosevelt lost the trust of the American people after he ended the oil monopolies.

• Roosevelt used old laws to break up trusts and monopolies.

• Roosevelt used new laws to protect trusts and monopolies.

What was the main method of change preferred by most progressives during the early 1900s?

• Most progressives pushed for new laws to protect workers.

• Most progressives supported local labor unions and strikes.

• Most progressives pushed for an end to immigration.

• Most progressives tried to block immigrants from politics.

Why did increased immigration help the growth of big businesses in the United States in the early 1900s?

• Increased immigration created a cheap labor force.

• Increased immigration led to stronger government regulations

• Increased immigration created a larger population.

• Increased immigration created a powerful anti-union population

What is the relationship between President Roosevelt and trusts?

• Roosevelt killed all kinds of trusts.

• Roosevelt protected all kinds of trusts.

• Roosevelt killed bad trusts and controlled good trusts.

• Roosevelt controlled bad trusts and killed good trusts.

What factor led to these cramped living conditions in immigrant/tenament housing?

• Apartments were destroyed to build large factories for industrialization.

• A large number of immigrants coming to New York led to a housing shortage.

• New York had not yet grown into a large city by the 1900s.

• Immigrants recreated the cramped living styles of Europe.

How did the population of European immigrants in America change in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Most immigrants came from northern and western Europe.

• Most immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe.

• The number of European immigrants decreased.

• The number of Protestant immigrants decreased.

During the Industrial Revolution, the term "technology" referred to what factor other than the physical inventions created during that time?

• ideas of how to use new inventions

• finances used to pay for new inventions

• laws that protected new inventions

• profits made from new inventions