Industrialization

Another word for describing a big city is what?

• rural

• suburban

• urban

• super-politan

Which of the following is the reason people moved to cities?

• for the job opportunities

• to catch a smelly pole cat

• that is where the transcontinental railroad stopped

• to get away from the free farmland out west

This led to faster production and lower prices

• Patent

• Assembly Line

• Dawes Act

• Automoblie

Monopolies hurt customers by lowering prices and decreasing competition.

• True

• False

The _______________ is the name for the change from goods being made by hand at home to making them by machine in factories.

• French Revolution
• Machine Revolution
• Industrial Revolution
• Technological Revolution

How did workers respond to harsh conditions of industrial life?

• they quit their jobs and moved to farms
• they froze the wages of unskilled workers
• they formed unions and mutual-aid societies
• they hired armed guards and police to protect themselves

What popular concept idealized women and the home?

• cult of domesticity
• temperance movement
• social gospel
• Social Darwinism

What did some critics of women's suffrage claim?

• everyone should be able to vote
• alcoholic beverages should remain legal
• women were too emotional to vote responsbily
• the social gospel was not based on Christianity

To explain the long, slow process of evolution Charles Darwin proposed the theory of 

• Social Darwinism
• natural domesticity
• imperialism
• natural selection

What do laissez-faire economists believe?

• Actions were right if they promoted happiness

• The government should control the means of production

• The bourgeoisie would always operate farms

• A free market would help everyone