Industrial Rev/Immigration / Urbanization

"Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal. Every person who shall make any such contract or engage in any such combination or conspiracy, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, at the discretion of the court.—Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
Which of the following best represents an illegal action under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

• organizing a widespread labor strike
• hiring laborers for long hours and low wages
• selling shares of a business with little financial security
• creating a large business that aims to eliminate market competition

Complete control over an industry's production, wages, & prices

• monopoly

• capitalism

• socialism

• concentration of wealth

He created the company known as Standard Oil

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

The law created to prevent monopolies, and break up large companies like Standard Oil

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Homestead Act
• Dawes Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

 Images such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were — 

• requiring vocational training programs for children
• employing children as a source of cheap labor
• seeking government regulation of child labor
• providing safe working conditions for child laborers

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

The US Government kept its hands out of private business during the Gilded Age, this practice is also known as ______________.

• Bureaucracy
• Laissez-faire
• Big-Big-Big Fresno Fair
• Dictatorship

“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center…. The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater the city, the greater are the riches of the rich and poverty of the poor.”—Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis, 1885

Based on this text, Strong feels that cities are characterized by their

• inequality.
• opportunity.
• poverty.
• technology.

Which island did European immigrants register to live in the U.S?

• Galveston

• Long

• Ellis

• Angel

“Ten dollars a week was to him a fortune. . . . Indeed, he would have been glad, only the day before, to get a place at three dollars a week. . . . Then he was to be advanced if he deserved it. It was indeed a bright prospect for a boy who, only a year before, could neither read nor write. . . . Dick’s great ambition to “grow up ‘spectable” seemed likely to be accomplished after all.”—Horatio Alger, 1868
The works of Horatio Alger promoted the idea that--

• a. life in the cities was preferable to rural life
•  b. workers were being exploited by industrialists
• anyone could become successful with hard work 
• children in the workforce deserved better treatment