Topic 1 Test

What point of view about these leaders does this cartoon

express?

• A political cartoon depicts industrialists

  relaxing on a pile of profits and products

  that are crushing workers.

• A political cartoon depicts industrialists

  being crushed by workers.

• A political cartoon depicts industrialists

  and workers going out to sea.

• None of the above

What is the subject of this cartoon?

• monopolists and the Senate

• Standard Oil and the Senate

• what the President's chamber looks like

• how senators treat voters

What message is the cartoonist sending by portraying the

monopolists as larger in size than the senators?

• The monopolists work harder.

• The monopolists voice the concerns of

  the people more effectively.

• The monopolists represent the majority

  of the population.

• The monopolists have more power to

  influence the government.

Which of the following inventions did not have an impact during

1865-1914?

• Telephone

• Light Bulb

• Bessemer Process

• Commercial Airplanes

Analyze the chart. What are some reasons why workers might

complain about Pullman, Illinois?

• Rent cost 13% more of the workers

  wages than in other towns.

• Workers could not own their own homes.

• Workers were subjected to home

  inspections.

• Pullman did not allow for religious

  diversity.

• All of the Above

What is the best definition for "The Gilded Age"?

• Late 1500s American middle class

  citizens who adopted the lifestyles and

  attitudes of the era.

• Late 1600s American middle class

  citizens who adopted the lifestyles and

  attitudes of the era

• Late 1700s American middle class

  citizens who adopted the lifestyles and

  attitudes of the era

• Late 1800s American middle class

  citizens who adopted the lifestyles and

  attitudes of the era

What media industry had an impact on the "Gilded Age" that

helped create mass culture?

• Television

• Newspapers

• Telegraph

• Magazines

Between 1860 and 1900, a primary cause of migration from rural

to urban areas was:

• inflationary pressure on crop prices.

• lack of rural housing as building slowed.

• increasing economic opportunity in cities

• government resettlement policies.

"Go into any of the 'respectable' tenement neighborhoods . . .

you shall come away agreeing [that] . . . life there does not seem

worth living . . . [T]he airshaft . . . seems always so busy letting out

foul stenches . . . that it has no time to earn its name by bringing

down fresh air."

-Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

Based on this quote and the title of his book, why do you think

Riis wrote what he did?

• to pressure public officials to tear down

  tenements in cities

• to encourage public discussion of poverty

  in cities

• to call attention to increasing criminal

  activity and violence in cities

• to pressure further migration to cities

  from rural areas

Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their

factories away from rivers?

• steel beams

• the telephone

• electricity

• typewriter