Gilded Age Test 1 Review

1. Steel changed people’s lives by making possible the

• 1. Invention of the radio

• 1. Construction of skyscrapers

• 1. Development of electricity

• 1. Establishment of time zones

In which system does one company control the businesses that make up all phases of the development of a product (mining ore, factory, Bessemer process, steel, and shipping)?

• Horizontal integration

• Cartel

• Vertical Integration

• Trust

   Which statement best expresses the melting pot theory as it relates to American society?

• Only European immigrants will be allowed into the United States

• All immigrant groups will maintain their separate cultures

• Different cultures will blend to form a uniquely American culture

• Immigrant ghettos will develop in urban areas

Between 1880 and 1920, the majority of the “new immigrants” to the United States came from

• Northern and western Europe

• Southern and Eastern Europe

• Canada and Latin America

• China and Southeast Asia

In the late 1800's which factor directly contributed to the growth of the steel industry?

• Government regulation of US Steel

• Employee ownership and stock min the industry

• New production techniques like the Bessemer Process that increased efficiency

• Court decisions that allowed collective bargaining

“Not the looking forward made me go, but the looking backward made me search a new life and struggle a hard battle. . . .[I]t is hard still now to bear the homesickness, loneliness, among strange people not knowing the language doing hard [work] without a minute of joy. But when I look back into my childhood . . . always under a terrible fear . . . I think that there is not anything harder.”—young Russian Jewish woman

Based on this statement, what most likely motivated this immigrant to come to the United States?

• family in the United States as a pull factor

• economic hardships as a push factor

• opportunities as a pull factor

• religious persecution as a push factor

The Bessemer process was crucial in the development of

• airplanes

• skyscrapers

• the telegraph system

• refrigerated railroad cars

What did Alexander Graham Bell's most famous invention contribute to life in the late 1800s?

• His invention opened up a new entertainment industry

• His invention were among the first products advertised in catalogs

• His invention created a better way to communicate with transatlantic ocean liners.

• His invention helped make communication between households and businesses more efficient.

“When Rockefeller founded Standard Oil, kerosene was 30 cents a gallon. Twenty years later, Rockefeller had almost a 90 percent market share and kerosene was only eight cents a gallon. Customers were the real winners here, because Rockefeller’s size allowed him to cut costs. . . .”—Historian Burton W. Folsom, Jr.

Folsom would be most likely to call John D. Rockefeller a

• Carpetbagger

• Robber Baron

• Philantrhopist

• Captain of Industry

In the nineteenth century, tenements such as this were examples of

 

• demographic shifts from urban to rural areas.

• how foreign policies affected economic issues in cities.

• the social issues affecting rural development.

• the social issues affecting urbanization.