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WorksheetsIndustrialization and Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who created Standard Oil Company?
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
d)
John P. Morgan
2.
Which term means total control of a product, a market, or an industry
a)
Trust
b)
Urban
c)
Monopoly
d)
Industry
3.
What does urbanization mean?
a)
Use of machines
b)
Growth of cities
c)
Growth of industry
d)
Agriculture
4.
Which law made it illegal to form a trust or monopoly?
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
5.
Which of the following means a person that helps others?
a)
Agriculturalist
b)
Adventurer
c)
Philanthropist
d)
Industrialist
6.
Which of the following IS NOT a reason for Westward Expansion?
a)
land ownership
b)
adventure
c)
wealth
d)
lumber
7.
What is Cornelius Vanderbilt known for? (best answer!)
a)
shipping
b)
boat industry
c)
railroads
d)
shipping and railroads
8.
This law banned slavery in the United States and all of it’s territories
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
9.
Who created an empire in the steel industry?
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Morgan
c)
Carnegie
d)
Ford
10.
What impact did mechanization have on crop production?
a)
stayed the same
b)
increased
c)
decreased
d)
all of these listed
11.
By implementing the moving assembly line in my Detroit plant, I ushered in the era of mass production. Who am I?
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Morgan
c)
Carnegie
d)
Ford
12.
What era is identified as the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial society in America?
a)
Civil War Era
b)
Industrial Era
c)
Westward Expansion Era
d)
World War II Era
13.
Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, Morgan, and Ford were known as
a)
industrialists
b)
robber barons
c)
captains of industry
d)
all of them
14.
Former slaves which headed west under the Homestead Act were called
a)
industrialists
b)
exodusters
c)
agriculturalists
d)
dentists
15.
Before the Civil War the Great Plains were referred to as
a)
a treeless wasteland
b)
the bread basket
c)
the center for the meatpacking industry
d)
none of these
16.
Which group fulfilled the majority of the labor needs in the U.S. during the Industrial Era?
a)
aristocrats
b)
freed slaves
c)
immigrants
d)
veterans
17.
The settlers on the Plains had to overcome many obstacles. Which of the following solution was related to a shortage of wood faced by the settlers?
a)
barbed wire
b)
windmills
c)
railroads
d)
beef cattle raising
18.
This law gave United States citizens the right to vote
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
19.
Carnegie sold his company, Carnegie Steel, for $480,000,000 to
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Morgan
c)
Carnegie
d)
Ford
20.
This law guaranteed citizenship to everyone born in the United States and guaranteed them equal protection under the law
a)
13th Amendment
b)
14th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
Civil Rights Act of 1866
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