Unit 5: Industrial and Progressive Era

Which two industries benefited directly from the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• coal and gold

• textile and iron

• steel and oil

• meat and corn

Which two companies are examples of the rise of trust and monopolies?

• Standard Oil Company and Carnegie Steel

• Standard Oil Company and Union Pacific

• Union Pacific and Carnegie Steel

• Union Pacific and Central Pacific

Alexander Graham Bell invented ____________ that enabled people to directly communicate with each other across long distances.

• telegraph

• cotton gin

• electric light bulb

• telephone

Which two were the immigration stations into the United States?

• Angel and Long Island

• Alcatraz and Liberty Island

• Ellis and Angel Island

• Ellis and Jekyll Island

The primary goal of this organization was to increase the bargaining power of the workers

• Standard Oil Company

• Ford Motors

• American Federation of Labor

• NAACP

Which of the following was not an example of farming and ranching innovations of the 1800's?

• Mechanical Reaper

• Steel Plow

• Motorized tractor

• Barbed Wire

The Plain's Indians were forced on reservations at the end of their ______________ to westward expansion.

• resistance

• approval

• treaties

• exposure

Muckrakers contributed to Progressivism by...

• writing about wealthy americans

• exposing the corruption in business and government

• aligning themselves with women's suffrage

• protesting against factory owners

Which of the following was an social activist of Progressivism.

• Nat Turner

• Jane Addams

• William Lloyd Garrison

• George Washington

What was the court case that had a major impact on the lives of African Americans?

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Gideon v. Wainwright