WorksheetsIndustrial Revolution and Immigration
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 26mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The Pony Express was put out of business by the telegraph. Who developed a way to send the telegraph?
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Samuel Morse
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Andrew Carnegie
2.
What do we call the time period of new inventions and technologies?
a)
Immigration
b)
Technological Period
c)
Antebellum Period
d)
The Industrial Revolution
3.
Alexander Graham Bell is credited with the invention of the ________________.
a)
light bulb
b)
automobile
c)
telephone
d)
telegraph
4.
Thomas Edison invented more than 1,000 new inventions including:
a)
phonograph
b)
electric power station
c)
phonograph
d)
all of the above
5.
The first airplane flight was made Kitty Hawk, North Carolina by whom?
a)
The Wright Brothers
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Jane Addams
d)
Amelia Earhart
6.
Henry Ford did not invent the automobile, but he did invent a way to mass produce them. This process is called an __________.
a)
mass production
b)
mechanization
c)
assembly line
d)
monopoly
7.
Inventors created new machines to make farming easier. Using machines to do work is called ______________.
a)
machine work
b)
smart
c)
farming
d)
mechanization
8.
Many immigrants came from Europe. Where did European Immigrants have to go before being allowed into America?
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Hawaiian Islands
d)
Washington, DC
9.
Immigrants that came from Asian countries had to go to ___________ in San Fransisco, CA before being allowed entry to the United States.
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Hawaiian Islands
d)
Washington, DC
10.
Because immigrants came to America with very little, they had to live in __________ which are run-down and unsafe buildings divided into apartments in the slums of cities.
a)
slums
b)
tenements
c)
complexes
d)
settlement houses
11.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Company was a ____________ in which immigrants worked in hot, cramped, and dangerous workshops.
a)
triangle
b)
company
c)
corporation
d)
sweatshop
12.
Settlement houses, or community centers, were founded to offer food, clothing, and basic needs for poor immigrants. These were founded by _________.
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Jane Goodall
13.
A _________ is a company that controls an entire industry.
a)
corporation
b)
monopoly
c)
industry
d)
free enterprise system
14.
Who created the Standard Oil Company?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John Muir
c)
John D. Rockefeller
d)
Ford Motor Company
15.
____________ invented the Bessemer process to make steel at an affordable price.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Henry Steel
d)
John Muir
16.
Workers formed __________ to fight for better wages and working conditions and to end child labor. Workers would refuse to work or ___________ to force business owners to meet their demands.
a)
corporations, strike
b)
AFL-CIO, strike
c)
strike, labor unions
d)
labor unions, strike
17.
Many African Americans moved to the North in search of work and fair treatment. What was this time called?
a)
The Great Migration
b)
The Great Move
c)
Immigration
d)
The Civil Rights Movement
18.
The ___________ Movement focused on stopping unfair business practices and improving the government.
a)
Civil Rights
b)
Progressive
c)
Child Labor
d)
Labor
19.
Muckrakers helped uncover unfair business practices. They would dig up "dirt" about companies. Because of this, Theodore Roosevelt signed these two reforms:
a)
The Pure Food and Drug Act
b)
The Meat Inspection Act
c)
all of the above
20.
Progressives passed __________ to try to solve some of the problems of this time period. These laws limited when you could buy alcohol.
a)
prohibition
b)
Blue Laws
c)
Red Laws
d)
21st Amendment
21.
Theodore Roosevelt protected the United States' wilderness. He did this after reading conservationist __________'s book and camping with him in the wilderness.
a)
John Muir
b)
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22.
Theodore Roosevelt was a conservationist who worked to protect our national forests. He became interested in conserving our wilderness after meeting who?
a)
John Muir
b)
progressive leaders
c)
George Custer
23.
Why did the United States go to war with Spain?
a)
We had American businesses in Cuba.
b)
The battleship USS Maine sank, and newspapers used yellow journalism to make us think Spain did it.
c)
We wanted to help the Cuban people.
d)
all of the above.
24.
What territory or territories did we gain after defeating the Spanish?
a)
Philippines
b)
Guam
c)
Puerto Rico
d)
all of the above
25.
Why was the Panama Canal created?
a)
The United States wanted to control Panama.
b)
The Transcontinental Railroad was getting too crowded.
c)
It was a quick ocean route from the east to the west.
d)
Americans didn't want Columbia to control Panama.
26.
The US acquired which two states to make the 50 United States of America.
a)
Puerto Rico
b)
Alaska
c)
Hawaii
d)
both Alaska and Hawaii
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