State Test Review- Progressive Age

Which statement in this excerpt most accurately describes life for immigrants in late 19 century

America?

• “In America you can say what you feel...”

• “Everybody is with everybody alike in America.”

• “An end to the worry for bread, and end to the fear of the bosses over you.”

• None of her statements accurately describe life in America in the late 19 century.

During the Industrial Age, how was the economic situation in the United States impacted by the federal

government’s use of tariffs?

• Low tariffs encouraged competition and drove down consumer prices.

• Low tariffs ended the trade deficit and stabilized the economy.

• High tariffs discouraged domestic manufacturing and caused unemployment.

• High tariffs resulted in industrial growth and yielded higher profits for large companies.

Which numbered location is a city where rural populations migrated to work in the steel and iron

industries during the Industrial Age?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Based on this information, what conclusion can be drawn about life for the "new" immigrants?

• New immigrants found higher paying jobs than the old immigrants.

• New immigrants faced more prejudice and discrimination than the old immigrants.

• New immigrants had an easier time adjusting to life in America than the old immigrants.

• New immigrants came to America with more money to invest than the old immigrants.

These changes contributed to what trend in the United States?

• fewer immigrants coming to the United States

• less discrimination and nativism in urban areas

• a population shift from rural to urban areas

• the end of sharecropping in the South

This cartoon satirizes what situation during the Industrial Age?

• The federal government allowed businesses to grow with very few regulations.

• The Sherman Antitrust Act placed retractions on monopolies and trusts.

• Many business leaders rose from poverty to become wealthy.

• Social Darwinism was used to justify poor treatment of workers.

In this excerpt, Addams is criticizing which group?

• labor unions

• muckrakers

• political machines

• progressives

The idea that business should be free from government regulation best represents which system?

• Social Darwinism

• capitalism

• socialism

• laissez-faire

What accounts for the trend that took place from 1890 to 1920?

• Chinese immigration was restricted into the United States because many Americans on the West

  Coast blamed declining wages on Chinese workers.

• Labor unions like the American Federation of Labor and the Knights of Labor lobbied to protect

  Chinese workers on the West Coast.

• Most Chinese immigrants returned to their homeland after the California Gold Rush ended and the

  transcontinental railroad was completed.

• Many Chinese immigrants left the United States for Europe to escape racial discrimination and

  take advantage of employment opportunities.

President Grover Cleveland’s use of an injunction to end the Pullman Strike was an example of what

situation in the United States during the Industrial Revolution?

• Strikes were effective ways to improve conditions for workers.

• Strikes were generally peaceful and resolved themselves without government intervention.

• The government was quick to act to protect workers who suffered injustices.

• The government favored the interests of big businesses over those of workers.