Topic 2: Industry, immigration

Patents are given to inventors for what reason?

• to encourage innovation, technology and business investments

• to prevent monopolies

• to end competition

• to prevent people from getting rich by creating technology

Railroads, oil, steel were all industries of the late 1800's

• that were balanced among many differing companies

• that were becoming controlled by monopolies

• that were taken over by the government to prevent anyone from getting rich by owning them

The passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act

• was a step for creating more rich monopolies

• was the federal government moving towards preventing monopolies

• was as example of a laissez-faire government practice

Henry Bessemer created a process to make which product faster, better and less expensive?

• steel

• coal

• electicity

• oil

Organized labor began because workers were tired of the long hours and low pay that

• created products that were very expensive

• made their business owning employers rich at the worker expense

• weren't sold in the United States

Because John Rockefeller built an oil empire that significantly reduces the fuel costs to consumers, some supporters proclaimed him to be a

• robber baron

• socialist

• carpetbagger

• captain of industry

Those who support an idea that wealth should be more equally distributed would lean towards support ________ policies

• laissez-faire

• socialism

• capitalist

• anarchy

Which is true between the difference between Angel Island and Ellis Island

• Asian immigrants were processed through Ellis Island

• European immigrants were processed at Angel Island

• European immigrants were processed at Ellis Island

• Angel Island rarely imprisoned or rejected any undesirable immigrant.

At immigration processing locations, the officials investigated the immigrants legal documents and their

• religious beliefs

• medical health

• language skills

• political preferences

Many growing large cities saw growth of both rich populations and also of more poor impoverished communities which is because of

• inequalities of opportunities

• equal opportunities

• technology available to all of the population

• education opportunities for all