Lesson 17 Review

What is urbanization?

• the growth of farming communities
• the growth of cities
• the growth of tenements
• the reduction of suburban sprawl

Which of the following did NOT contribute to poor working conditions?

• low wages and long hours
• lack of concern for workers’ safety
• repetitive and boring tasks
• lack of immigrant workers

Work in a factory was

• exciting and new
• distracting
• only for skilled workers
• boring and repetitive

Who were “factory girls”?

• older women who supervised the factory
• child laborers
• female mill workers
• unemployed mothers

A small factory where wages were low and conditions unhealthy were known as

• sweatshops
• market shops
• low product
• tenements

What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution on education?

• education became illegal for children under nine years of age
• there was an increase in education
• school occurred on the weekends
• many children lacked education

Why were child labor laws during this time ineffective?

• there were no child labor laws passed during this time
• children faked their age to work in factories
• companies ignored these laws and they were poorly enforced
• none of the above

Why did many immigrants come to the United States in the 1800s?

• the concept of factories was new and exciting
• large European corporations sent many employees oversees
• factories provided numerous jobs
• cities and development were foreign concepts

The increase in the number of factories and the large influx of immigrants resulted in

• socialism
• urbanization
• secularization
• anti-environmentalism

Dirty, overcrowded apartment buildings in the slums were known as

• hostels
• industrialized spillover
• suburbia
• tenements