Unit 7 Exam- Industrial and Progressive America

The rise of industry had the following effect on life in America:

• Big business took care of the workers leading to improved life style

• Less people were needed to work, so employment went down

• Businesses in the cities need more workers who came from foreign countries

• More people moved to small towns

The most famous oil tycoon was:

• Upton Sinclair

• JP Morgan

• Walt Riis

• John D Rockefeller

In the case of Plessy v Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that: 

• Racial segregation in public places was legal

• Voting rights could not be taxed

• School segregation was unconstitutional

• Lynching was a federal crime

Progressivism is a...... 

• Reform movement that sought to correct problems brought on by the rise of industry

• New way of producing goods

• A new era of not offering help to individuals

• A set of services offered to the consumer by corporations

The goal of many businessmen was to wipe out the competition and gain sole control of the market, creating a:

• Monopoly

• Joint-Stock

• Market Share

• Stock

Ending this governmental policy was a goal of the Progressive reformers:

• Graft

• Laissez-faire

• Favoritism

• Patronage

The settlement house in Chicago was called: 

• Palmer House

• McCormick Place

• Hull House

• Back of the Yards

The president of the United States who worked to help the common man by getting government control on big business was:

• William McKinley

• Thomas Jefferson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Barack Obama

Many factory workers live in overcrowded, run-down apartments called:

• Townhomes

• Skyscrapers

• Condominiums

• Tenements

The main immigration processing station in New York was called:

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Hull Hall

• Tammany Hall