United States History Exam

1.   The building of a railroad network led to industrial growth because

•  raw materials and finished products were shipped quickly and cheaply.

• finished products were shipped quickly to rural Canada.

• finished products were shipped quickly and cheaply to factories.

• raw materials were shipped quickly and cheaply to consumers.

2.     What is one reason why the expansion of the railroads caused prices of products to drop during the Gilded Age?

• Railroads provided transportation for products to markets in rural areas of the South.

• Railroads provided cheap and fast transportation for both raw materials and products.

• Railroads provided fast transportation of raw materials to ports for overseas shipments.

• Railroads provided expensive but fast transportation of raw materials and products.

3.   Many people who immigrated to the United States during the Gilded Age moved to

• farming communities, where they established their own farms.

• rural Southern areas, where they opened businesses.

• Western areas, where they managed cattle ranches.

• urban areas, where they worked in factories.

4. What was one major effect of industrialization on American society?

• More people received free higher education.

• More people received health care and benefits.

• More people took up family farming.

• More people moved to urban areas.

5. How did the development of the assembly line affect who Henry Ford could hire at his plants?

• He could only hire workers who were skilled in building cars.

•  He could hire unskilled employees and teach them one stage of car production.

• He could hire skilled employees to teach unskilled workers specific car-making skills.

• He could hire unskilled workers and teach them each stage of car production.

6. Before Henry Ford revolutionized the automobile industry, most cars were made

• on an assembly line.

• one at a time, by hand.

• by unskilled workers

• using a disassembly line.

7.    How did Henry Ford’s production methods affect the number of cars the Ford plant could produce?

• The plant could produce only a few cars in a long period of time.

• The plant could produce many cars made by skilled workers.

• The plant could produce many cars in a short period of time.

• The plant could produce only a few cars made by skilled workers.

8.     As an African American prohibitionist, Frederick Douglass was in favor of the 18th Amendment because he

• thought enslavers were more abusive to enslaved people when they drank.

• witnessed enslavers trying to control enslaved people with alcohol.

• witnessed enslaved people getting drunk too often in their limited down time.

• thought it was morally wrong for the government to use alcohol as a source of income.

9. What did the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution accomplish?

• It renewed the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the US.

• It gave women, African Americans, and Asians the right to vote.

• It banned the production, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the US.

• It provided for a graduated income tax on all working Americans.

10.     In the early 1900s, Al Capone was a

• firefighter.

• entertainer.

• bootlegger.

• policeman.