Module 8 Exam

Who founded the American Federation of Labor, which focused on uniting skilled factory workers?

• John L. Lewis

• Mother Jones

• Samuel Gompers

• Eugene Debs

What did workers form and organize so they could demand change from their bosses?

• unions

• political parties

• land grants

• nothing

How did John D. Rockefeller become a billionaire?

• coil

• oil

• railroads

• steel

The People’s Party was also known as the __ Party.

• Democrat

• Bankers

• Populist

• Republicans

What was the spontaneous eruption of strikes throughout the Midwest known as?

• The Great Strike

• The Great Awakening

• The Great Upheaval

• The Strike Movement

What is a person called who makes a fortune by exploiting workers and resources and using unfair government influence?

• Captain of Industry

• Horizontal Integration

• Robber Baron

• Political Machine

You can talk to your friends on the phone because of __.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• George Westinghouse

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

__ is a political and economic system in which most forms of economically valuable property and resources are owned or controlled by the public or the state

• Populism

• Communism

• Liberalism

• Socialism

What plagued the slums of urban communities in the 19th century?

• overcrowding

• disease

• crime

• all of the above

Having total control of an industry is called a __.

• monopoly

• corporation

• merger

• vertical integration