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WorksheetsINDUSTRIALIZATION
Total questions: 92
Worksheet time: 1hrs 14mins
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Class
Date
1.
This man controlled 25% of the U.S. steel market.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
2.
What is a Laissez-Faire economy?
a)
An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. government
b)
An economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. government
c)
An economy that works best when there is very little involvement by the U.S. government
d)
An economy that is controlled by another country
3.
Between 1860 and 1910, the U.S. population tripled due to:
a)
The Baby Boom
b)
Immigration
c)
The Homestead Act
d)
Better Healthcare
4.
Name the immigrant who invented the telephone.
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
Alexander Graham Bell
5.
Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the ills of the Chicago meatpacking industry.
a)
The Desert
b)
The jungle
c)
The Ocean
d)
The City
The City
The City
6.
Which of the following is not something unions fought for?
a)
8-hour work days
b)
End of child labor
c)
Higher wages
d)
Expanded child labor
7.
Which of the following was not a common job for children in the early 1900s?
a)
Coal mines
b)
Canning factories
c)
Steel mills
d)
Tobacco plants
8.
This man donated over $350 million to build libraries all over the U.S.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
9.
This process increased production speed and made goods like clothing and cars cheaper.
a)
Hand craftmanship
b)
Assembly line
c)
Bessemer process
d)
Vertical integration
10.
This is a term for a very large business with virtually no competition.
a)
Trust
b)
Corporation
c)
Tariff
d)
Machine
11.
Which of the following best describes the "Guilded Age?"
a)
Almost all Americans enjoyed great wealth
b)
Almost all Americans struggled greatly during this time period
c)
While some Americans enjoyed great wealth, most struggled during this period
d)
While most Americans enjoyed great wealth, some struggled during this period
12.
Which of the following best describes the "Guilded Age?"
a)
Almost all Americans enjoyed great wealth
b)
Almost all Americans struggled greatly during this time period
c)
While some Americans enjoyed great wealth, most struggled during this period
d)
While most Americans enjoyed great wealth, some struggled during this period
13.
This man eventually controlled 90% of the U.S. oil market.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
d)
J.P. Morgan
14.
This type of metal improved almost all types of manufacturing.
a)
Iron
b)
Steel
c)
Lead
d)
Copper
15.
Which of the following was not a factor in America's rapid Industrialization?
a)
An abundant supply of natural resources
b)
An abundant supply of cheap labor
c)
Widespread use of airplanes for transportation
d)
Few government regulations on industry
16.
The Pullman strike and the Haymarket incident both occurred in what city?
a)
Detroit
b)
New York
c)
Chicago
d)
Cleveland
17.
Journalists who wrote stories about the ills of American were calledV
a)
Investigators
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Ecologists
d)
Vindicators
18.
What does it mean to invest in a project or venture?
a)
To get hired by the company
b)
To give money to the company
c)
To represent the company in any legal actions
d)
To sell the company for the highest price
19.
What is a Laissez-Faire economy?
a)
An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. government
b)
An economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. government
c)
An economy that works best when there is very little involvement by the U.S. government
d)
An economy that is controlled by another country
20.
Which of these inventions was not invented by Thomas edison
a)
Phonograph
b)
Car tire
c)
Lightbulb
d)
Motion picture projector
21.
What is a license that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use or sell an invention?
a)
Patent
b)
Permit
c)
Proprietorship
d)
Process Papers
22.
Who dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
JD Rockefeller
d)
Henry Ford
23.
When one person owns and runs the whole business?
a)
Proprietorship
b)
Company
c)
Corporation
d)
Partnership
24.
What was the Bessemer Process?
a)
Inexpensive process for the mass-production of steel
b)
Inexpensive process for the mass-production of coal
c)
Inexpensive process for the mass-production of oil
d)
Inexpensive process for the mass-production of silver
25.
What is the process in which a society transforms from agriculture to manufacturing?
a)
Socialism
b)
Industrialization
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Collective Bargaining
26.
Those who are most “fit” are meant to rise to the top and become successful?
a)
Capitolism
b)
Wealth Theory
c)
Socialism
d)
Social Darwinism
27.
Who created the light bulb?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Timothy Edwards
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
JD Rockefeller
28.
What type of policy means "hands off" government?
a)
Socialism
b)
Laissez-Faire
c)
Darwinism
d)
Capitalism
29.
An American oil producing, refining, and marketing company established by Rockefeller?
a)
Staple Oil Company
b)
Rockefeller Oil Co.
c)
Rockefeller and Bros.
d)
Standard Oil Company
30.
When the economic/political system in a country are controlled by private owners for profit?
a)
Socialism
b)
Capitalism
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Communism
31.
Who were business leaders that built their fortunes by stealing from the public?
a)
Robber Barons
b)
Kings of Labor
c)
Labor Thieves
d)
Captains of Industry
32.
What is a process by which workers negotiate as a group with employers?
a)
Cooperative Negotiating
b)
Collective Bargaining
c)
Craft Union
d)
Corporation
33.
A company that is owned by shareholders and lead by a board of directors?
a)
Proprietorship
b)
Corporation
c)
Partnership
d)
Labor union
34.
What is a firm that has no competitors in its industry?
a)
Monopoly
b)
Oligarchy
c)
Oligopoly
d)
Corporation
35.
Formed in Philadelphia, they worked to organize men and women, skilled and unskilled, into a single union
a)
Knights of Labor
b)
American Federation of Labor
c)
The Know Nothins
d)
The Wobblies
36.
A person who rebels against any authority, established order, or ruling power?
a)
Socialist
b)
Monopolist
c)
Anarchist
d)
Darwinist
37.
Which act outlawed any combination of companies that restrained interstate trade or commerce?
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Pullman Act
c)
Homestead Act
d)
Haymarket Act
38.
Who was an American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry?
a)
JD Rockefeller
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Samuel Compers
d)
Andrew Carnegie
39.
Who was an American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry?
a)
JD Rockefeller
b)
Henry Ford
c)
Samuel Compers
d)
Andrew Carnegie
40.
The bringing together of many firms in the same business to eliminate competition?
a)
Horizontal Consolidation
b)
Vertical Consolidation
41.
Gaining control of the different businesses that make up all phases of a product’s development?
a)
Horizontal Consolidation
b)
Vertical Consolidation
42.
Progressive political party led by Theodore Roosevelt
a)
Know Nothing Party
b)
Bull Moose Party
c)
Progressive Bull Party
d)
Democratic Party
43.
This amendment granted women's suffrage
a)
17th Amendment
b)
16th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
44.
This act outlawed interstate transportation of impure or diluted foods and the deliberate mislabeling of foods and drugs
a)
Meat Inspection Act
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Sherman Antitrust Act
45.
Reporters who exposed the corruption in society were known as
a)
Muckrakers
b)
Conservationists
c)
Socialists
d)
Darwinists
46.
A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s
a)
Progressive Era
b)
Great Depression
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Imperialism
47.
All of these men were Progressive Era presidents except
a)
Theodore Roosvelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
William McKinley
48.
Author of The Jungle, this person wrote about the "Horrors of the Meatpacking Industry"
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Henry Bellamy
49.
What is Populism?
a)
Farmers who fought against railroad monopolies
b)
Teddy Roosevelt's nickname
c)
A reform movement during the 1920's
d)
Application of Social Darwinism to the human race
50.
What group of Americans was the victim of price discrimination?
a)
Farmers
b)
Robber Barons
c)
Immigrants
d)
Natives
51.
Who did the Grangers fight against?
a)
Steel Monopolies
b)
Railroad Monopolies
c)
Oil Monopolies
d)
Socialist
52.
Which of the following combinations were the three Progressive Presidents?
a)
Taft, Hayes, T Roosevelt
b)
Wilson, Garfield, Taft
c)
T Roosevelt, Johnson, Morgan
d)
T Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft
53.
Which Progressive President was given the nickname of the "trustbuster"?
a)
Taft
b)
Wilson
c)
T Roosevelt
d)
Obama
54.
Which of the following was not one of Teddy Roosevelt's Three C's?
a)
Cooperate with the corporations
b)
Control the corporations
c)
Conservation of the environment
d)
Consumer Protection
55.
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Luke Skywalker
56.
Which Progressive President used Dollar Diplomacy?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Wilson
c)
Taft
d)
Rocky Balboa
57.
Which Progressive President used Moral Diplomacy?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Wilson
c)
Taft
d)
Tom Brady
58.
Who wrote the book On the Origin of Species?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Charles Darwin
d)
Lincoln Steffens
59.
Which of the following defines Natural Selection?
a)
America's belief that it was to settle from the East Coast to the West Coast
b)
Species have evolved over time
c)
Bullying smaller countries for their resources
d)
Survival of the fittest
60.
What does the belief of Social Darwinism lead to?
a)
Racism
b)
Helping the less fortunate
c)
Equality
61.
If a Social Darwinist and a believer in the Social Gospel walked into this room what would the believer in the Social Gospel do?
a)
Help the people living in these conditions
b)
Not help the people because it is their own fault they are living like this
62.
Which government type is based on competition and the belief that the harder you work the more you will make?
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Communism
63.
Which government type was created by Karl Marx and was an extreme version of Socialism?
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Communism
64.
What book was the famous line "Workers of the World Unite" from?
a)
The Jungle
b)
History of the Standard Oil Company
c)
How the Other Half Lives
d)
The Communist Manifesto
65.
What was the purpose of Muckrakers?
a)
Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
b)
Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
c)
Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
d)
Writers who wrote patriotic short stories
66.
Pictures like this would have been discussed in what book?
a)
The Jungle
b)
History of the Standard Oil Company
c)
The Shame of the Cities
d)
How the Other Half Lives
67.
In this picture who is warning the people of the danger from the railroad?
a)
The Yellow Journalists
b)
The Granger
c)
The Muckrakers
d)
Jacob Riis
68.
Which of the following were in immigrant neighborhoods, providing daycare, kindergarten, training, and a place to stay?
a)
political machines
b)
settlement houses
c)
prohibition halls
d)
coin operated launderies
69.
What was the name of the railroad trust broken up by Teddy Roosevelt (owned by JP Morgan)?
a)
Standard Oil
b)
Union Pacific
c)
Northern Securities
d)
Burlington Northern
70.
Which president was known as a "trustbuster?
a)
Theodroe Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
Franklin Roosevelt
71.
What was the name for the Progressive Era anti monopoly law that made tying agreements and interlocking directorates illegal (1914)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller Cefauver Act
72.
What antin monopoly law provided for regulation of the railroads (1887 - before the Progressive Era)
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
73.
What muckraker attacked race relations, including lynching?
a)
Ida Wells
b)
no
c)
no
d)
no
74.
Which Constitutional amendment provided for Prohibition (conservative social progressives)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
75.
Which of the following was not a Progressive Era president?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Theodeore Rosoevelt
d)
William Howard Taft
76.
In what decade was Susan B. Anthony arrested for voting?
a)
1840s
b)
1870s
c)
1910s
d)
1930s
77.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
78.
What was the structure called when multiple companies gave power of their companies over to one board of dirctors so that the board of directos could run the multiple companies like one monopoly?
a)
monopoly
b)
vertical integration
c)
horizontal integration
d)
trust
79.
Who was the founder of Hull House, a settlement house?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
80.
Who advocated African Americans taking on menial jobs and earning the respect of white America?
a)
WEB Du Bois
b)
Marcus Garvey
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Nat Turner
81.
Who did the Grangers fight against?
a)
Steel Monopolies
b)
Railroad Monopolies
c)
Oil Monopolies
d)
Socialist
82.
Which of the following combinations were the three Progressive Presidents?
a)
Taft, Hayes, T Roosevelt
b)
Wilson, Garfield, Taft
c)
T Roosevelt, Johnson, Morgan
d)
T Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft
83.
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Luke Skywalker
84.
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Luke Skywalker
85.
Which government type is based on competition and the belief that the harder you work the more you will make?
a)
Capitalism
b)
Socialism
c)
Communism
86.
What was the purpose of Muckrakers?
a)
Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
b)
Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
c)
Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
d)
Writers who wrote patriotic short stories
87.
What was the purpose of Muckrakers?
a)
Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
b)
Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
c)
Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
d)
Writers who wrote patriotic short stories
88.
In this picture who is warning the people of the danger from the railroad?
a)
The Yellow Journalists
b)
The Granger
c)
The Muckrakers
d)
Jacob Riis
89.
Who wrote the History of the Standard Oil Company?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Lincoln Steffens
d)
Joseph Pulitzer
90.
Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
a)
Eugene Debs
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Samuel Gompers
d)
Upton Sinclair
91.
What happened in the Haymarket Square in Chicago?
a)
It was the location where Pullman's workers flipped a train over
b)
It was the town square where the Coal Creek workers held a protest
c)
It was where the workers of the McCormick Harvesting Company held a protest that turned violent
d)
Haymarket Square doesn't exist
92.
Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Jacob Riis
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