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Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 33mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
I had a monopoly on the steel industry. I am ______________
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
The Wright Brothers
d)
J.P. Morgan
2.
I am the founder of the Standard Oil Company. I am ___________
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
Henry Ford
3.
In 1900s, workers demanded better working conditions, better pay, and ________________.
a)
retirement benefits
b)
the right to unionize
c)
stock options
d)
right to health insurance
4.
He bought Carnegie steel company and made US steel the largest steel producing company of its time.
a)
J.P. Morgan
b)
Henry Ford
c)
John Kaiser
d)
George Vanderbilt
5.
These were poor Immigrants who moved into small apartments, usually overcrowded, poorly designed, numerous fire hazards, and were unsanitary.
a)
Immigrant Tennants
b)
Dumbell Tenements
c)
Migrant Residents
d)
Tenant Buildings
6.
A monopoly where the supply chain of a company is owned by that company?
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
Vertical Integration
c)
Dollar Diplomacy
d)
Multiple Corporation
7.
What is it called when a monopoly is formed by controlling all of the same type of business related to that business?
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
Vertical Integration
c)
Merger
8.
What is a trust?
a)
When several businesses act as one under control of a board of directors.
b)
When an account is owned by a board of trustees.
c)
Something most people lack in others.
9.
This union was started by Samuel Gompers. Only skilled workers could join.
a)
American Federation of Labor
b)
Labor Union
c)
Federal American Labor Union
10.
This was the first major strike by a labor force in US. The President sent in troops to break up the strike.
a)
Steel Strike
b)
Railroad Strike
c)
Oil Strike
11.
Nativists thought that too many Chinese miners were coming to California to try to get gold. Therefore they passed laws denying Chinese laborers and miners from coming to the US.
a)
Immigrant Exclusion Act
b)
Chinese Exclusion Act
c)
Asian Exclusion Act
12.
A thin layer of prosperity that covered the poverty and corruption that existed in society. A term coined by Mark Twain and used to describe the time period of the late 1800s in the US.
a)
Golden Age
b)
Enlightenment Age
c)
Gilded Age
d)
Realism Age
13.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People founded by W.E.B. DuBois and Ida Wells was created to fight for black civil rights.
a)
NAACP
b)
NCAP
c)
NCCA
d)
NACC
14.
These journalist uncovered the poverty and corruption, in big business and government in the US during the Progressive Era.
a)
Yellow Journalists
b)
Muckrackers
c)
Freedom Writers
d)
Fudruckers
15.
Upton Sinclair wrote what book that uncovered the horrors of the meat packing industry.
a)
Lord of the Flies
b)
The Jungle
c)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
d)
The Other Half
16.
This allowed businesses to mass produce goods at low prices.
a)
Bottom Line
b)
Open Line
c)
Assembly Line
d)
Wait Line
17.
This act was passed to break up monopolies.
a)
Sherman-Anti Trust Act
b)
Roosevelt Act
c)
Grant Partisan Act
d)
Antitrust Act
18.
A time period where the public wanted to improve the country by promoting social welfare, moral improvement, economic and government reform.
a)
Progressive Era
b)
Renaissance Era
c)
Enlightenment Era
d)
Western Era
19.
This allowed people who lived in rural areas to buy the same products as people who lived near the big department stores in the cities.
a)
Catalogs
b)
Magazines
c)
QVC
d)
Telegram
20.
This is the total value of all goods and services that a country produces.
a)
Gross National Product
b)
Grand National Product
c)
National Gross of Production
d)
Gross Income
21.
This is the terminology for a free enterprise economy where the government did not interfere
a)
Lazy Fair
b)
Laissez-Faire
c)
Late Faire
d)
Lassy Fair
22.
These are people who risk their capital to organize and run their business
a)
bosses
b)
business owners
c)
entrepreneurs
d)
king pins
23.
The more a business produces the cheaper it costs for that business
a)
scales of justice
b)
economic scales
c)
scales of business
d)
Economies of scale
24.
Life of the common worker in the 1900s was what?
a)
difficult
b)
dangerous
c)
low pay
d)
all of the above
25.
What were the two different kinds of industrial workers?
a)
craft & common
b)
lay & skill
c)
standard & complex
d)
skilled & unskilled
26.
How did big business attempt to stop unions from forming?
a)
sign contracts
b)
blacklist
c)
oaths
d)
all of the above
27.
This person developed the theory of class warfare. That the poor would revolt and overthrow the rich.
a)
Karl Marxx
b)
Charles Darwin
c)
Rupert Herbert
d)
Samuel Grompers
28.
What was NOT a cause for industrialization.
a)
Abundant natural resources.
b)
Cheap tariff rates.
c)
National transportation and communication networks
d)
Cheap immigrant labor force.
29.
What were some affects of the workplace?
a)
Low wages, long hours, poor work conditions.
b)
First large unions formed but had little bargaining power against larger companies.
c)
Rural migration and immigration created large, concentrated workforce.
d)
All of the above.
30.
Why did waves of immigrants flock to America?
a)
Escape civil war and the draft
b)
Escape classicism
c)
Find better jobs
d)
Escape political persecution
31.
Which is an extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people.
a)
Nativism
b)
Immigration
c)
Individualism
d)
Collectivism
32.
Which is NOT a social class in the 1900s.
a)
High Society
b)
Urban Poverty
c)
Upper Middle Class
d)
Working Class
33.
These were corrupt political parties who provided services to immigrants in exchange for votes
a)
Political Machines
b)
Politicians
c)
Political Alliances
d)
Political Bosses
34.
This was a SETTLEMENT HOUSE where IMMIGRANTS AND THE POOR COULD GET JOB TRAINING AND EDUCATION.
a)
Jane Adams Hull House
b)
Salvation Army
c)
YMCA
d)
Boarding Houses
35.
Which was NOT a muckraker?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Orville Wright
d)
Jacob Riis
36.
Who introduced the theory of social Darwinism?
a)
Charles Darwin
b)
Herbert Spencer
c)
JP Morgan
d)
Lincoln Steffens
37.
The American belief that no matter how humble a individuals beginnings they could rise in society and go as far as their talents and commitment would take them.
a)
Spirituality
b)
Faith
c)
Individualism
d)
Darwinism
38.
This is the idea that wealthy people should engage in philanthropy and use their fortunes to create a culture that would help people help themselves.
a)
Gospel of Wealth
b)
Philanthropy
c)
Sharing is Caring
d)
Social Prosperity
39.
This art form attempted to portray the world realistically.
a)
Surrealism
b)
Realism
c)
Impressionism
d)
Expressionism
40.
Which did people NOT attend to enjoy popular culture activities?
a)
Amusement parks
b)
Saloons
c)
Drag Shows
d)
Ragtime Shows
41.
The children of immigrants were taught english, learned about American history and culture in a process called?
a)
Urbanization
b)
Americanization
c)
Colinization
d)
Implantation
42.
Populists and populism supported which social demographic?
a)
Farmers
b)
Immigrants
c)
Unions
d)
Craftsmen
43.
What did populists want?
a)
Free silver
b)
less bank regulation
c)
lower railroad shipping rates
d)
all of the above.
44.
Which was NOT a form of currency?
a)
greenbacks
b)
bank notes
c)
gold/silver coins
d)
greybacks
45.
Which was NOT one of the farmers political parties?
a)
Populists
b)
The Grange
c)
Farmers Alliance
d)
Republicans
46.
This was a tax placed on registering to vote.
a)
Morrill Tax
b)
Farm Tax
c)
Poll Tax
d)
Tea Tax
47.
This COURT CASE that upheld the doctrine supporting Jim Crow laws by saying that you could have separate facilities for black and whites as long as they were equal.
a)
Jim Crow
b)
Plessy v Fergueson
c)
Dred Scott
d)
Brown v Board
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