Ch 16 Test History

This proves that workers tolerated poor wages and working conditions because they

• Could be replaced easily by other workers

• Believed it had to get worse before it got better

• thought that the government would protect them

• Were tricked by employers into taking dangerous jobs

The major incentive that drove Captains of Industry (Builders) to invent machines was

• a chance to strike it rich via technological innovation

• that machines could do the work five times faster than humans did

• lucrative government grants that were offered to would-be inventors

• that machines would enable them to replace expensive skilled workers with cheap unskilled workers

What effect did the development of

standardized parts and machine tools

have on factory workers?

• Wages rose considerably.

• Working conditions improved.

• Fewer skills were required of

  workers.

• Fewer jobs were available to

  workers.

The development of the factory system in the early 1800s caused -

• a decrease in free trade between nations

• an increase in government regulation of businesses

• an increase in production levels

• a decrease in immigration

What were some problems that the people in factories encountered?

• long hours, good pay
• Low wages, long hours, dangerous
• dangerous, long hours, good pay
• low wages, good hours. dangerous

changes in manufacturing and transportation that began with fewer things being made by hand but instead made using machines in larger-scale factories.

• Ford Forward

• Labor Union

• Socialism

• Industrial Revolution

Why were children used for labor in the factory?

• Could pay them low wages

• Small and nimble to fit in machines

• Not mature enough to form labor unions

• To help them earn money for an education

Which of the following were reasons people were leaving their countries and immigrating to the U.S.

• rising taxes

• Too much food

• Famine

• Religious and Political persecution

• Escaping slavery

This connected the East Coast to the West Coast and allowed for people and goods to be transported much more rapidly across the country

• Highway

• Airways

• Mississippi River

• Transcontinental Railroad

This group of immigrants was especially discriminated against with an Exclusion Act made in 1882.

• Chinese
• Irish
• Italian
• German