Industrial Revolution and Progressive Era Quiz 2024

Why was American able to Industrialize after the Civil War (during the Gilded Age)?

• changes in food production

• decline in population

• use of human power

• protection of natural resources

Children often worked in factories like their parents because

• they had been expelled from school.

• they wanted new clothes.

• their parents earned low wages.

• they were bored.

What did workers organize unions and participate in strikes?

• to improve wages

• to improve working conditions

• to work only 8 hours a day

• all of the above

• none of the above

which of the following does not explain why business leaders created monopolies?

• to stabilize the economy

• to eliminate competition

• to make money

• to improve wages for their workers

During the Gilded Age, who did the government side with during a strike?

• the business owners

• the post office

• the workers

• the Food and Drug Administration

What revolutionized transportation in America?

• the raft

• the wagon

• the Transcontinental Railroad

• the Pony Express

The populists believed in the following

• the coinage of gold only

• a treasury department

• government ownership of railroads

• government ownership of farmland

What did the Mugwumps want to end?

• child labor

• the spoils system or patronage

• labor unions

• women's suffrage

Which of the following was not a Progressive President?

• T. Roosevelt

• W. Taft

• W. Wilson

• J. Garfield

What was the 19th Amendment?

• Income Tax

• Direct Election of Senators

• Prohibition

• Women's Suffrage