US History Common Assessment (Fall 2023)

Which of the following is FALSE about American life BEFORE the nation industrialized?

• Most items were made by hand
• Goods and food were produced with ease by using machines and factories
• Many people lived in small towns or villages
• Businesses were small, family-owned, and traded locally

Who were the Exodusters?

• Irish immigrants who had faced discrimination and wanted to leave North Carolina.
• Southern plantation owners in Kansas.
• African Americans seeking to leave North Carolina for Kansas.
• Cherokee chief Robert Blackhawk on behalf of the people of his nation.

In the latter half of the 1800s, a large labor supply, an abundance of natural resources, and the construction of new railroads contributed most directly to the

• growth of American industry
• dependence on imported goods
• demand for limits on immigration
• rejection of high tariffs by the United States

What time period saw the greatest rise in immigration?

• 1870'2 - 1880's
• 1860’s - 1870’s
• 1880’2 - 1890’s
• 1890’s - 1900’s

In the late 1800s, workers tolerated poor wages and working conditions because they…

• thought that the government would protect them
• believed it had to get worse before it got better
• could be replaced easily by other workers
• were tricked by employers into taking dangerous jobs

Which of these factors pulled immigrants to the United States?

• lack of food
• potential employment
• poor economic conditions
• religious persecution

A major cause of antagonism toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after 1880 was the belief that they

• were better educated than native-born Americans
• had a higher standard of living than most Americans
• adapted easily to American culture
• competed with Americans for jobs as unskilled laborers

All of the following were problems created by urbanization in the late nineteenth EXCEPT

• Lack of available workers
• Overcrowded tenements
• Unsafe working conditions
• High crime rates

In the late 1800s, the term robber baron was used to describe some owners of big businesses primarily because they

• favored free trade
• got rid of their competition using ruthless methods
• were against the forming of corporations
• Wanted to make sure workers were being treated fairly

Favoring advancement toward better conditions or new ideas is called

• Urbanization
• Nativism
• Progressivism
• Socialism/Communism