USH Standards 11 & 12 Quiz (2025)

What was the purpose of Ellis Island in the late 1800s/early 1900s?

• It was used to prevent Africans from entering the U.S.
• It was established as a example of great architecture of the time period.
• It was where construction workers building skyscrapers were hired.
• It was used as an immigrant-processing center for those entering via the Atlantic Ocean.

This great American inventor was nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Park." His inventions radically changed life in America during the 1800s and beyond.

• Benjamin Franklin
• Isaac Newton
• Thomas Edison
• Albert Einstein

This transportation development in the mid-1800s allowed Americans to move from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast in less than a week. It lead to many Americans moving west of the Mississippi River and caused many problems for the Native Americans.

• Erie Canal
• Automobile
• Steamship
• Transcontinental Railroad

Labor strikes are when workers

• pool their wages to purchase items that will be used to make their work easier.
• are actively seeking work in another industry due to dissatisfaction with their current jobs.
• ask for longer hours to earn more wages due to recent pay deduction.
• refuse to work because their demands for higher wages and better working conditions aren't met.

This is the term for a single company that is run by a single board of directors. Stock-holders of these are paid dividends (money) when profits are earned.

• Vertically integrated company
• Horizontally integrated company
• Trust
• Monopoly

This was the company created by John D. Rockefeller. It made him one of the richest men in the world and he used his wealth to buy a great deal of political influence.

• Standard Oil Company
• U.S. Steel
• Carnegie Steel
• Union Pacific Railroad Company

Ethnic ghettos were

• government funded charities that provided job training for European immigrants.
• Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues that were built in the early 1900s.
• inner-city neighborhoods where various European immigrant groups would live together to continue to preserve their European language and culture.
• privately owned settlement houses where services were provided to European immigrants.

Railroad company employed immigrants to work for their companies because the immigrants would

• fight off the Native Americans while Americans workers built the railroad.
• do the most dangerous work and accept lower wages than American workers.
• cook the meals that the American workers would eat at lunchtime.
• build shelters over the tracks to protect the American workers from the sun.

This great invention of the late 1800s helped illuminate American cities and homes throughout the country.

• light bulb
• phonograph
• motion picture camera
• electric power station

This industry saw a huge increase in its business due to it being used to build significant portions of the railroad, especially the rails and railroad cars.

• Iron
• Steel
• Aluminum
• Plastic