US1 - Industrialization

Most Americans worked in what occupation before the Civil War?

• farms

• trades

• factories

• military

We have _________________ to thank for rapid expansion / industrialization in the United States during the late 1800s.

• access to natural resources

• tariffs on the US economy

• wars overseas

• petroleum

In order to reach new resources located throughout the American frontier, the _________________ industry was forced to expand rapidly.

• railroad

• coal mining

• steel

• wood milling

This invention was the first to form instant contact between the US and Europe by means of a cable line across the ocean:

• telegraph

• telephone

• telegram

• gramophone

A negative impact of high tariffs in regards to foreign trade was

• they hurt American businesses that relied on foreign trade and impacted competition

• they hurt American businesses hoping to sell to their local communities

• the made the rich richer and the poor poorer

• all of the answers are correct

Two types of workers in the American industry were known as craft workers and __________________.

• unskilled laborers

• skilled workers

• all are correct

• unskilled farmers

Which of the following were NOT a tactic used by companies to stop unions from forming?

• lockouts

• oaths or contracts

• blacklisting

• undercover investigators that reported union organizers

Strikebreakers were people who

• were people brought in to replace union workers

• broke up strikes, often violently

• electricians that built the first power breakers

• people that protested harsh working conditions

Unions and strikes often failed because

• there weren't laws to protect them

• the government always came to break them up

• workers ultimately got what they needed anyway

• the were laws against them existing

The Haymarket Riot, which ended violently with a bomb thrown by a radical and breakup by government authorities, began when

• workers just wanted to protest for an 8 hour work day

• railroads cut wages 3 times

• their company initiated a lockout

• women were not being paid equally