Unit 6-Progressive Era

What is a corporation?

               

• you play a game where you have to wear a monocle

                 

• one company controls production of an item so it can charge any price it wants

               

• a company sells shares or pieces of the company’s profits

                 

• they develop new inventions that change the world

Consider this quote:

“It is true that wealth has been greatly increased and that the average of comfort, leisure, and refinement has been raised; but these gains are not general.  In them the lowest classes do not share… the new forces [of progress]… do not act upon society from underneath… but strike it at a point intermediate between top and bottom.  It was as though an immense wedge were being forced, not underneath society, but through society.  Those who are above the point of separation are elevated, but those who are below are crushed down.”

The author calls industrialization (progress) a wedge.  What effect does he believe that wedge has on society?

               

• it lifts everyone up

            

• it helps you score a touchdown on a kick return

                

• it increases comfort and refinement

            

• it lifts up the wealthy and crushes the poor

  Labor unions formed as a way to help workers

             

•   find better jobs

              

• learn more skilled trades

              

• improve their working conditions

               

•   increase the hours children could work

“Crouched over the coal chutes, the boys sit hour after hour, picking out the pieces of slate. I once tried to do the work a twelve-year old boy was doing day after day, for ten hours at a stretch, for sixty cents a day. The gloom appalled me.” John Spargo

What change did the conditions described in this quotation lead to?

               

• passage of child labor laws

           

• ideas of the enlightenment

              

• spread of imperialism to Africa

                

• a migration from the countryside (rural areas) to cities (urban areas)

Which of the following is NOT a factor that led to urbanization in America?

               

• millions of new factory jobs

                 

• growth of the railroad network

                

• the prohibition movement to ban alcohol

                 

• increased immigration

Few restrictions were placed on immigration to the United States in the 1800s primarily because immigrants

             

• would add to the diversity of the population

                 

• provided a source of investment money (capital)

• would work for low wages

                

• could be enslaved

According to the table, what is one way that living conditions became worse between 1870 and 1910?

               

• there were more children working

                 

• the infant mortality rate improved

                 

• fewer people graduated high school

                 

• fewer people had telephones

Which of the following was a problem in urban housing/slums?

              

• no running water

                 

•   overcrowding

                

•  old neglected buildings

                

•   all of the above

A monopoly is a business where

            

• you play a game where you have to wear a monocle

                 

• one company controls production of an item so it can charge any price it wants

                 

• a company sells shares or pieces of the company’s profits

                 

• they develop new inventions that change the world

All of the following were inventions that changed industry in America in the late 1800s EXCEPT:

               

 

• Ford’s assembly line

                 

• microwave

• safe and stable electricity

                 

• the sewing machine