Topic 1 Industry and Immigration Test

What is the subject of this cartoon?

• monopolists and the Senate

• Standard Oil and the Senate

• what the Senate chamber looks like

• how senators treat voters

What message is the cartoonist sending by portraying the monopolists as larger in size than the senators?

• The monopolists work harder.

• The monopolists voice the concerns of the people more effectively.

• The monopolists represent the majority of the population.

• The monopolists have more power to influence the government.

What message is presented by the state of the two entrances to the Senate?

• The Senate has been elected or appointed by wealthy people.

• Common people and monopolists share equal rights to representation.

• Common people's rights to government have been taken over by monopolists.

• The monopolists need a larger door because they are larger people.

Examine the clothing of the monopolists. How is each depicted?

• as a short person

• as a strong man

• as a bag of money

• as a cruel man

To what does the sign in the center of the cartoon allude?

• the Constitution

• the Gettysburg Address

• the Sherman Antitrust Act

• the Pledge of Allegiance

Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?

• steel beams

• the telephone

• electricity

• railroads

Why was Pullman, Illinois, an unusual town?

• It had one main industry.

• It specialized in a regional product.

• It owed its prosperity to the railroads.

• It was built by a company to house its workers.

Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?

• They were socialists.

• They were part of management.

• They were federal troops.

• They were workers used to break strikes.

What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?

• fire safety standards

• cheap electric power

• new methods of making steel

• the invention of the elevator

Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?

• radical unionists and socialists

• railroad workers, both skilled and unskilled

• female workers in the dressmaking trade

• African-American workers, both skilled and unskilled