Industrialization/Urbanization Review

Which invention extended teh number of hours in a day that Americans could work?

• Bessemer Process

• Telegraph

• Airplane

• Electricity

Which system has one company control the businesses that make up all pahses of a product's development?

• horizontal integration

• trusts

• corporations

• vertical integration

Which argument supports the perception of big business leaders as "captains of industry?"

• Industrialists' support for technology benefited the economy

• Monopolies forced small companies out of business

• Consumers were harmed by inflated prices

• Workers' wages rose as industrialists profited

The ICC was formed to

• oversee railroad operations

• control interstate commerce

• make new transportation laws

• regulate telephone lines

Select the reasons why immigrants had come to the United States.

• social equality

• religious freedom

• superior education

• police protection

• economic opportunity

Which best describes what travel was like for immigrants coming to the United States?

• fancy first class travel

• checking bags (but bags fly free)

• dirty, crowded, and unhealthy

• spacious and inexpensive

Why did most New Immigrants choose to live in cities?

• to be near industrial jobs & factories

• to meet new people

• to change their culture

• because there was no farming land left

Which of these is a pull factor? Select All That Apply.

• starvation

• religious discrimination

• potential employment

• new opportunities

• ability to own land

Who wrote "How the Other Half Lives?"

• Jacob Riis

• Frederick Olmstead

• Ida Tarbell

• Otis Hemmingway

What group did the Populists belong to?

• Farmers

• women

• industrialists

• African Americans