APUSH Ch17 industrialization Quiz

A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.

• monopoly
• corporation
• trust
• horizontal Integration

"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?

• South Europe
• NE Europe
• SW Europe
• SE Europe

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for its rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

During the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Due to the period of increased corruption from railroad companies, the U.S. government created the ___________________________  to regulate railroad companies.

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontinental Act
• Laissez-Faire Act 

Because of nativist feelings and a popular growing fear of becoming jobless, Congress passed the following act in 1882 that limited immigration of an entire nationality for 10 years.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

• Interstate Commerece Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontiental Act
• Laissez Faire Act 

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics

He was known as a major entrepreneur in the Oil Industry

• John Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbelt 
• Gustavus Swift