2025 4th 9Weeks

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

Who invented the light bulb?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• J.P. Morgan

What was the name of volunteer soldiers who fought in the Spanish-American War?

• Woodrow Wilson
• Buffalo soldiers
• Franz Ferdinand
• Rough riders

This natural disaster served to worsen the effects of the Great Depression on Farmers in the Midwest 

• Tornados
• Dust Bowl
• Black Tuesday 
• Hurricanes

Flappers can be described as women who...

• Wore extremely long hair styles

• Followed all the rules of being "ladylike"

• Married at 18

• Wore shorter hair styles and dresses

_{Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because}

• unions were unconstitutional

• strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues

• government supported business instead of workers

• strikers failed to use militant tactics

Which development made it possible to construct this type of building?

• The invention of a new process for manufacturing steel and elevators

• The government’s focus on educating engineers

• The manufacturing of glass that blocks ultraviolet sun rays

• The importation of stronger kinds of wood

Andrew Carnegie was known for

• Oil

• Steel

• Finance

• Railroads

What was the primary outcome of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

• It promoted high prices

• It allowed for collective bargaining

• It made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts

• It caused a major railroad strike

Why was the transcontinental railroad beneficial to America?

• The railroad was built over mountains that were impassable in stagecoach.
• Railroads provided a faster, safer, and cheaper transportation.
• Railroads allowed people to bring their furniture to the Great Plains.

• Railroads crossed rivers which were difficult to cross earlier.