2023 - Unit 2 Review

What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

• Electricity

• Railroad

• Telephone

• Oil refining

Which idea summarizes the Gilded Age?

• Many Americans moved west to farm

• Native Americans were placed on Reservations

• The discovery of Gold increased western migration

• Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics

What was an important effect of the invention of the light bulb?

• Machines were able to be more efficient

• Products were created on the assembly line

• Factories could extend working hours

• Businesses hired more skilled workers

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Political Corruption

• Laissez Faire

• Monopoly

• Social Darwinism

What idea is the cartoon addressing?

• Monopoly

• Laissez Faire

• Americanization

• Industrial Revolution

What factor most led to the growth of the steel industry?

• Laissez faire economics

• New production techniques

• Labor unions

• The need for a new building material

What statement about tenements was true during the Gilded Age?

• The living conditions of tenements improved greatly

• The number of people living in tenements declined

• Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements

• Tenements were torn down and rebuilt

What term attempted to assimilate people of different cultures?

• Americanization movement

• Nativism

• Patronage System

• Labor unions

What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

• By homesteading on the Great Plains

• By joining labor unions

• By working for Political bosses

• Through better education

What was one positive of wealthy industrialists?

• Paying their workers low wages

• Philanthropic donations to charity

• Supporting social darwinism

• Working with political machines