20/21 LA-US History Unit 1 Test Review

Which best describes a development that improved railroad safety?

• Railroads adopted standard time to coordinate schedules.

• Railroads offered fold-down beds so that people could sleep more comfortably.

• Companies standardized track technology so that they could use each other’s tracks.

• Companies replaced hand-operated brakes with air brakes on trains.

Which of these inventions arose from an attempt to help hearing-impaired people?

• the multiplex telegraph

• the telephone

• the phonograph

• the motion-picture machine

How did people use a telegraph to communicate without speech?

• with a series of bells of varying pitches

• with words typed out on a typewriter

• with Morse Code

• with overland mail carriages

The majority of immigrants and rural migrants who moved to American cities at the turn of the twentieth century became part of the

• middle class.

• working poor.

• wealthy class.

• working rich.

Under the leadership of Eugene Debs, how did the Socialist Party of America become involved in politics?

• The party campaigned to make labor unions illegal.

• The party worked to make child labor laws less stringent.

• The party stayed out of politics altogether.

• The party ran candidates for political office.

Which statement best summarizes the working lives of middle-class women by 1900?

• No middle-class women worked outside the home.

• Married, middle-class women worked outside the home.

• All single, middle-class women worked outside the home.

• Many single, middle-class women worked outside the home.

As city populations increased in the early 1900s, cities

• grew out only.

• stayed the same size.

• grew up only.

• grew up and out.

Terence Powderly, the leader of the Knights of Labor, supported

• peaceful negotiations between workers and management.

• union strikes across the nation.

• unions for only certain groups of people.

• greater work productivity among workers.

How did the success of individuals such as Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell change American culture?

• Their success encouraged people to experiment and invent new products.

• Their success encouraged people to start big businesses.

• Their success discouraged people from trying to innovate the electricity or telephone industries.

• Their success discouraged people from working together to create new inventions.

The building of a railroad network led to industrial growth because

• raw materials and finished products were shipped quickly and cheaply.

• finished products were shipped quickly to rural Canada.

• finished products were shipped quickly and cheaply to factories.

• raw materials were shipped quickly and cheaply to consumers.