Consequences of Industrial Growth Quiz

This image of John D. Rockefeller most directly depicts which of the following?

• Rockefeller’s commercial activities have devastated the landscape.

• Rockefeller built a transportation empire based on steamships.

• The base of Rockefeller’s empire is his monopoly control of oil.

• Rockefeller promotes American products in overseas markets.

How did Carnegie establish a monopoly of the steel industry?

• Eliminating Rockefeller’s trust over the oil industry

• Buying up the steps of the production, including the Bessemer Process

• Declining to purchase and use railroads to transport steel

• Blackmailing Rockefeller to sell his business

The expansion of which infrastructure caused the growth of the oil and steel industries?

• Canals

• Bridges

• Steamboats

• Railroads

“Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent.…The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise—free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind.…The laws of accumulation will be left free, the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor.…The best minds will thus have reached a stage in the development of the race in which it is clearly seen there is no mode of disposing of surplus wealth creditable to thoughtful and earnest men into whose hands it flows, save by using it year by year for the general good.”

―Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” 1889

The view of the poor in the quote above is most consistent with the ideology of

• the Social Gospel.

• the Populist Party.

• Social Darwinism.

• Utopianism.

As white settlers and trains led to the decimation of the buffalo, whose way of life was threatened?

• White settlers

• Cattle Ranchers

• Plains Indians

• Railroad workers

What was the significance of the Wounded Knee Massacre?

• It was the end of Native American armed resistance.

• It began a series of fighting between Plains Indians and the US government.

• It was the last unsuccessful attempt to move Native Americans to reservations.

• It resulted in the repeal of the Dawes Act.

Where were many new immigrants processed on the East Coast of the United States during the years around the turn to the 20th century?

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Coney Island

• Alcatraz 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?

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

• Luxury housing for the richest Americans

• A homeless shantytown constructed in a public park

• Government subsidized housing for the urban poor

Which of the following is NOT a goal or tactic of labor unions?

• Better pay

• Safer working conditions

• An 8 hour work day

• Increasing the substantial profits of their industrial employer