Gilded Age Exam Review

During the period after Reconstruction, the United States shifted from an agricultural ecoomy to an industrial economy in a process known as ______________ .

• Americanization

• urbanization

• immigration

• Industrialization

Which problem associated with industrialization led to the rise of the organized labor union movement?

• unsafe working conditions

• poor city sanitation

• crime

• child labor

The development of the ___________________ process allowed the mass production of ________________.

• Drake; fuel oil

• Bessemer; steel

• Tesla; electricity

• Ford; automobiles

 

What invention of the 19th century drammatically changed agriculture on the Great Plains?

• elevator

• Bessemer process

• barbed wire

• sewing machine

 

What 19th century invention allowed the building of skyscrapers?

• typewriter

• steel plow

• elevator

• incandescent lightbulb

 

Which 19th century businessman used trusts (placing control of several companies in a Board of Trustees) to control the oil industry

• Carnegie

• Morgan

• Ford

• Rockefeller

 

Which big business entrepreneur of the 19th century used vertical integration to create a monopoly in steel production?

• Carnegie

• Vanderbilt

• Ford

• Rockefeller

Labor unions often supprted the idea of ____________ governmental system.*

2/2

Socialist

• Socialist

• Capitalist

• Democratic

• Autocratic

Which labor union leader wanted one big union for all workers?

• Samuel Gompers

• Terrence Powederly

• Eugene Debs

• Jimmy Hoffa

Which 19th century innovator created the assembly line?

• Morgan

• Ford

• Rockefeller

• Carnegie