Unit 5 review

What were the benefits of the assembly line?

• Businesses didn’t have to pay for insurance

• Goods were produced quicker and businesses grew

• It eliminated workers’ jobs

• This led to the invention of robots

What was the effect of the assembly line for workers?

• It created more jobs for workers

• It made working conditions dangerous

• Reduced the number of worker’s jobs for machinery

• Made business owners upset over workers doing less work

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in these charts?

• Industrialization in the U.S. coincided with a decrease in immigration to the country.

• The manufacturing sector provided only a small number of jobs during Industrialization.

• Immigrant women did not participate in manufacturing in the U.S. because their cultures forbid them from working.

• Immigration to the U.S. provided a steady source of laborers for a rapidly growing manufacturing sector.

Which action was most likely taken as a response to the events described in the two charts above?

• Manufacturers employed only workers born on U.S. soil.

• Workers’ organizations published their materials in many languages.

• Factory owners paid high wages to immigrant workers.

• Immigrants purchased the majority of factories in the U.S. at this time.

What would be considered a push factor?

• A need to escape poverty, oppression and war in their countries of origin

• Job opportunities in another country

• Wanting new experiences

• Leaving a country just because you want to

What best defines horizontal organization for businesses ?

• A partnership between business owners to create a monopoly

• Controlling all parts of production

• Creating a monopoly

• Buying competitors businesses so that they can control the pricing of a product       

What best defines vertical organization for businesses?

• A partnership between business owners to create a monopoly

• Controlling all parts of production

• Creating a monopoly

• Buying competitors businesses so that they can control the pricing of a product       

What is a monopoly?

• When a business owner or partnership of owners control a particular market and eliminate competition

• A board game

• When a business owner controls U.S patents

• When the government controls the businesses 

What is the purpose of a union?

• To protect money in companies

• To keep the government in check

• To protect worker’s rights

• To protect business owner’s rights

Why did the country move from an agricultural society to an industrial society?

• The invention of new technology made it easier to produce goods in factories

• People were tired of farming

• Factories made more money

• People preferred working in factories