Industrial and Progressive Review

Political bosses provided favors to people in order to obtain their votes in future elections

• True

• False

Which of these reasons led to a massive increase in urban populations in the early twentieth century?

• Industrial owners provided services for workers

• Increase in immigration from Europe

• Many laborers went to rural areas

• Government agencies were required to aid immigrants

______ had the first industrial revolution

• France

• Japan

• United States

• Great Britain

What was the result of the industrial revolution?

• Significant economic, social, and technological changes
• Increased agricultural production
• Political stability
• Decreased urbanization

Which of these choices was a consequence of monopolies taking advantage of smaller companies?

• Social Security was implemented

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed

• The military expanded

• Immigration to the United States increased

American entrepreneur who developed hair products especially for black women and built the most successful company owned by an African American at that time.

• Henry Ford

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Albert Einstein
• Madame C.J. Walker

What did Granville T. Woods do?

• Granville T. Woods was the leader of the political machine known as Tammany Hall.

• Granville T. Woods was a professional athlete.
• Granville T. Woods invented the assembly line leading to the boom in the auto industry

• Developed a type of wireless communication that allowed moving trains to communicate with each other and with stations, greatly reducing the number of railway collisions

The idea that the most intelligent and capable people are fit to survive in our society

• Social Darwinism

• natural selection
• eugenics
• survival of the fittest

Laissez-Faire supports which economic system?

• communism
• feudalism
• capitalism
• socialism

An African American carpenter and builder that was free during slavery

• George Proctor

• Booker T. Washington
• Harriet Tubman
• Frederick Douglass