U.S. History Unit 6 Review

What was the primary purpose of Ellis Island?

• Processing permanent residents applying for U.S. citizenship.

• Processing highly skilled workers arriving from China and Japan.

• Processing first-class passengers arriving on European steamship lines.

• Processing immigrants mainly coming from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Why are Americans able to build skyscrapers that were now safer and higher than previous generations?

• Wood

• Steel

• Hardened Iron

• Titanium

The majority of immigrants that traveled to the United States at the turn of the 20th century, new immigrants, arrived from which areas of the world?

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Eastern and Northern South America

• Northern and Western China

• Western and Southern Philippines

Who is the founder and President of the American Federation of Labor?

• Eugene Debs

• Samuel Gompers

• Henry Ford

• John D. Rockefeller

What did industrial monopolies reduce during the late 1800s?

• Interstate commerce

• AFL

• Corruption

• Competition

What impact did Edison’s light bulb have on American industrial growth?

• An increase in the sales of kerosene lamps.

• Many industries decreased production of goods.

• The necessity for farmers decreased.

• Workers could work longer/safer hours in factories.

What was the impact that the massive immigration numbers had on the ever changing United States?

• Immigration led to many industries refusing to hire non-American labor leading to higher wages for white Americans.

• While the amount of immigrants entering the United States increased there was little change to the social structure within the county.

• With an influx of fresh labor force, industry skyrocketed while worker conditions worsened.

• With an influx of fresh labor force, industry actually worsened while worker conditions slowly progressed.

In the nineteenth century, big business leaders such as Andrew Carnegie would have likely attempted to:

• lobby Congress to pass tougher anti-immigration laws so American workers could get jobs

• Consolidate many similar corporations into one giant business that controlled all of the market.

• seek assistance from the government to ensure that their business was making quality products

• work closely with labor unions to provide workers with safer working environments and living wages.

Which of the following BEST describes the contributions of railroads to the economic development of the United States?

• lowered costs of shipping in the United States.

• enabled trade to most parts of the country.

• allowed immigrants to enter the country.

• provided good investment opportunities.

How did the U.S. government respond to the formation of labor unions in the late 1800s?

• It cooperated with industrial leaders in trying to suppress strikes.

• It created legislation protecting the rights of workers to organize in unions.

• It prosecuted labor members for spreading socialist ideas.

• It worked closely with labor leaders to reform industrial corruption.