What was the purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act?

Regulate railroads and limit excessive freight rates

Government funding building of Transcontinental Railroad

Ensure the railroad companies stayed accident free

To ensure the government got railroad tax revenue

Which of the following was the largest factor in the rapid industrialization of the United States?

Railroad boom in the mid to late 1800s

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: What led to urbanization (growth of cities) from 1850 to 1900?

Availability of work/jobs in factories

One company has complete control over a product, service, or industry

One company is competing fairly against similar businesses

A program that monopolizes time

A war between Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley

Which of the following best defines vertical integration?

A company controls all the factors to produce and distribute their products

A company buys out their competitors

A company buys other businesses of completely different industries.

A company relies on other businesses to help ship their products

What is horizontal integration?

A company buys out their competitors

A company buying out their distributers

A company buys out their suppliers

A company participates in a trust or cartel

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: What were factory working conditions like in the late 1800s?

Work hours were 10+ hours a day

Why did many poor and working class families also have their children work in the late 19th century?

Wages were so low that children needed to work

Families let their children decide

Why were many urban cities divided into ethnic neighborhoods?

Immigrants chose to live amongst those that shared a similar culture

There were already created zones for immigrants to go to

Factories were located in and around the city

The federal government created a law to establish ethnic neighborhoods

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: What problems were typical of urban cities in the late 1800s?

Diseases and outbreaks spread easily

Why did immigrants vote often and support political machines?

Political machines offered jobs and helped immigrants with services

Political machines were used to push against corruption

Political machines were firmly established in their home countries

Political machines were factories, so they offered great paying jobs

Concerning political corruption; what is patronage?

Giving a job to a loyal supporter or friend that likely isn't qualified

Paying off a senator or representative to look the other way

Pocketing a portion of money from a city contract

Engaging in illegal voting practices

Concerning political corruption; what would be an example of a kickback?

A company charges a city $300,000 dollars for construction job and gives $200,000 to the political machine that assigned the company the job/contract

A politician knows where a new city school is built, buys the land cheaply, and then sells it to the city for quadruple the price originally paid.

A mayor picks his closest friends for local government positions, even though they have no experience.

In the late 1800s what was nativism?

An idea that native-born whites had power over new immigrants, and that immigrants shouldn't be allowed into the US

A mindset that Native American tribes should have their land returned to them

A political party devoted to keeping the US free from Native American tribes

An idea that native plants should be focused on in agriculture

What was an impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Immgration from China significantly declined

Immigration from China increased

Chinese Americans became more respected

During the late 1800s what was the Americanization movement?

Encourage and help new immigrants adopt American culture, language, and customs.

To celebrate immigrant cultures

Societal change that led to fusion culture and customs

To promote the rights of Native Americans

Observing the map; why is the US population heavily concentrated in major cities?

Population was growing and cities had the highest availbility of jobs

Many Americans took advantage of the Homestead Act

There were no transportation systems, so people stayed where they were born

The cities had the best living conditions

Political machines can be described as

Local organizations attemping to control city politics, they would give favors to immigrants in return for their votes.

A factory that creates robot politicians

An organization that sought to reform national politics

A labor union that fought for an 8-8-8 day

Observing the political cartoon; who controls government and legislation?

US Senate and US House of Representatives

Why did labor unions like the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor form?

Average workers were undercompensated/underpaid and overworked

Working conditions were safe and fair

Factory owners and companies justly compensated their employees

The federal government was effectively regulating major industries

CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY: What challenges did Native Americans experience in the latter half of the 1800s?

Native children forced to attend Indian Boarding Schools

The federal government forced Natives into reservations

The natives were displaced/kicked off lands in favor of American settlers

The US military continued to wage war against Native tribes that didn't adopt the reservation policy

Natives were forced to work in factories and mines

What is Manifest Destiny?

An assertion that the US is destined by God to expand westward, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean

The ability to manifest your wants and desires

A theory that "survival of the fittest" should be attributed to society.

The idea that there should be no taxation without representation

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which figure made their fortune in the Steel Industry?

Andrew Carnegie

John D. Rockefeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Leland Stanfod

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was used to purify iron and make steel?

Oil drill

Typewriter

Telegraph

Bessemer Process

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which figure controlled the majority of the oil industry?

J.P. Morgan

John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

Andrew Carnegie

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

Which law was designed to break up monopolies?

Chinese Exclusion Act

Interstate Commerce Act

Standard Time Act

Sherman Antitrust Act

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is Social Darwinism

A theory that nations and peoples/races are subject to natural selection and only the fittest in society and business would survive

A theory that society is predetermined based upon one's birth status

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

A supporter of Social Darwinsim would support which of the following statements?

Businesses should be regulared by the government

Government should establish programs to help those most in need

Everyone is responsible for their own health, living conditions, and working conditions.

Government should support businesses

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the original purpose of using standardized time and time zones?

Help to set railroad schedules for companies, passengers and keep trains from crashing

To ensure all were following the same time

To stop others from controlling time

To showcase that the US was industrialized

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