Industrialization & Immigration Test Review

In which country did the Industrial Revolution begin?

• The United States
• England
• France
• Germany

What product was first made using machines in factories?

• Steel
• textiles
• locomotives
• flying shuttles

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution

What is the movement from rural to urban areas called?

• Moving
• colonization
• inflation
• urbanization

Why did people move to the cities during the Industrial revolution?

• Jobs in factories
• Jobs on the farm
• Family
• Friends

Between the Civil War and WWI the US was transformed from an agricultural to an _____ nation.

• industrial
• civilized
• archaic
• agrarian

Which three big businesses transformed America in the years between 1870 and 1914?

• meatpacking, automobile,  and construction
• railroads, steel and oil
• textile, meatpacking and canals
• political machines, settlement houses and ghettos

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

Which of the following factors was most influential in the growth of industrialization?

• Large numbers of unemployed farm workers provided industrial labor.

• Factories became more efficient, which led to higher prices for most goods.

• Manufactured goods replaced fresh crops in most markets and stores.

• More people moved from cities to rural areas in order to purchase farmland.

Which of the following statements best describes the United States at the end of the nineteenth century?

• The nation had shifted from an agricultural (farming), rural economy to an industrial urban one

• Americans did not want to expand to new lands anymore

• Development of railroads got many people to move to Canada

• Cities became much cleaner and safer to live in