Beginning of Modern America

Select 2 correct answers below: What are 2 examples of push factors?

• War and crime

• Natural Disasters

• Being closer to family

• Better job opportunities

Select 2 correct answers below: What are 2 examples of pull factors?

• Political Stability

• Disease and poverty

• Religious Freedom

• War and Crime

The Pure Food and Drug Act protected consumers by:

• Prohibiting food and drug companies from monopolizing certain markets

• requiring expiration dates to be printed on all food and drug packaging

• instituting price regulations limiting corporate profits on food and drugs

• banning the sale and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs

Select 2 correct answers below: What were some of the effects of the conditions in city neighborhoods in the late 1800s?

• A large rise in crime

• Widespread disease

• Female unemployment

• Rise of education

Which invention allowed for the production of steel to be fast and cheap?

• Moving assembly line

• Bessemer Process

• The steam engine

• The electric light bulb

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called:

• Great Society

• Fair Play Accord

• Square Deal

• New Way

Which of these tactics were used by Labor Unions during the Industrial Revolution in order to get their demands met?

• Going on strike

• Quitting their job

• Slowing down the assembly

• Attacking their bosses

Select 2 correct answers below: Why was child labor so widespread during the Industrial Revolution?

• Factory owners were able to pay children less

• Poor families needed the income, however little

• Children worked more slowly than adults

• The courts established high child wage rates

Select 2 correct answers below: What were some of the conditions in sweatshops?

• highly taxed pay

• hot, overcrowded rooms

• strict safety laws

• loud, demanding boss

The poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings often occupied by immigrants were called

• Skyscrapers

• Tenements

• Settlement houses

• benevolent societies