Industrial Economy quiz

What is the message of this political cartoon?

• Rockefeller was "King" of the oil industry, creating a monopoly called Standard Oil

• Rockefeller was a leader in the steel industry

• Carnegie built his steel empire from the expansion of railroads

Due to expansion of the ________________, oil and steel industries grew.

• canals

• bridges

• railroads

• steamboats

Who was most impacted by white settlers and trains decimating the buffalo population?

• White settlers

• Plains Indians

• Railroad workers

• cattle ranchers

Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" used __________________, or "survival of the fittest" to justify his wealth.

• utopianism

• social darwinism

• the Social Gospel

______________ was an immigrant processing center off the east coast of the U.S. that received many Europeans at the turn of the 20th century.

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

Where did immigrants who came through Angel Island primarily come from?

• Western Europe

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Asia

• The Caribbean

What was a tenement or ethnic ghetto?

• luxury apartment homes for the rich

• apartments for the urban poor that were often overcrowded and in disrepair

• homeless shantytowns

Which of the following was NOT a goal or tactic of Samuel Gomper's American Federation of Labor?

• higher wages

• better working conditions

• increasing profits of the employer

• shorter work days and weeks

What is nativism?

• prejudice towards immigrants by Americans who wanted limited opportunities for them

• believing that immigrants are superior to natives

• belief that certain individual are more "fit" than others

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a result of ________________.

• a desire to balance ethnicities immigrating to the U.S.

• Anti-Chinese nativist sentiments- belief that the Chinese were "taking all the jobs"

• rapid growth in the Chinese population