Unit 1.1 and 1.2 TEST Review

Which of the following factors helped lead to a period of industrial growth?

• the increase in the cost of labor

• the decline in the population of urban areas

• the decline in government spending for business and innovation

• the increase in the developme of new uses/inventions for natural resources

Which of the following was part of the government's plan of assimilation for the Native Americans?

• Students in boarding schools would be able to speak any language they choose to in school.

• The government would set up boarding schools for Native American Children

• Students would be encouraged to wear traditional clothes

• Native Americans could maintain their beliefs and way of life.

Which of the following correctly describes the working conditions most workers faced in the 1800s

• safe environments with few accidents

• equal pay for men and women

• a variety of tasks to perform

• long hours with low pay

After several police officers and workers will killed in a riot during the ________, the public began to turn against the labor movement.

• Haymarket Affair

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Great Strike

How did the US government change its policy toward Native American land during the 1850s?

• It started forbidding settlers from claiming any land on the Great Plains

• It began to allow Native Americans to hunt on their traditional lands.

• It created new treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe

• It began to designate all land in the Great Plains as reservation land

which of the following is a reason why the South industrialized more slowly than the North?

• Southern business owned most of the railroads

• People in the South lacked capital for investment

• Southern businesses had low transportation costs

• The environment in the south was ideal for industry

Why did workers form unions?

• to decrease wages

• to support child labor

• to increase working hours

• to improve working conditions

How did the Bessemer process improve manufacturing?

• IT produced a dense metal that was soft and tended to rust

• It enable manufactures to produce steel from scrap metal

• it provided an efficient process to create hard, rust resistant metal

• It allowed manufacutres to remove oil from beneath the earth's surface.

Decide if each statement is something that describes an industrialists as a "Robber Baron" or "Captain of Industry"

They took advantage of workers and consumers

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

Decide if each statement is something that describes an industrialists as a "Robber Baron" or "Captain of Industry"

They helped to make the economy more productive

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry