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WorksheetsUnit 9 Review: Industry & Reform
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 40mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which person would most likely resist changing the negative effects of industry?
a)
Captain of Industry
b)
Union Leader
c)
Striking Factory Worker
d)
Progressive Reformer
2.
Which invention of the 1800s did NOT contribute to the rise of big business?
a)
Bicycle
b)
Railroad
c)
Electric lighting
d)
Telephone
3.
How did the assembly line help American industries grow?
a)
It gave everyone a car to get to markets and buy products made by them.
b)
It was government supported.
c)
It made steel plentiful.
d)
It let them make their product at a lower cost so consumers could afford it.
4.
Which man created the lightbulb and industrialized electricity?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
Henry Ford
d)
James Watts
5.
This is a method where workers stay in one place as products move along a moving belt.
a)
Mechanization
b)
Assembly line
c)
Automated systems
d)
Production
6.
Young mine workers motivated labor unions to...
a)
increase working hours
b)
reform education policies
c)
limit employment of children
d)
refuse employment to immigrants
7.
What was Rockefeller's strategy for economic control of the oil business?
a)
association
b)
cooperation
c)
monopoly
d)
cooperative
8.
Which industry is Andrew Carnegie associated with?
a)
Steel
b)
Oil
c)
Shipping and Railroads
d)
Banking
9.
Henry Ford was responsible for...
a)
lightbulb and electrification
b)
telephone and communication
c)
assembly line and automobiles
d)
airplane and transportation
10.
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a captain of which industry?
a)
Oil
b)
Textiles
c)
Steel
d)
Shipping and railroads
11.
This device was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and changed communication.
a)
Lightbulb
b)
Automobile
c)
Telephone
d)
Bessemer process
12.
During the Industrial Revolution in America people moved from...
a)
the rural countryside to the city
b)
cities to the country
c)
United States to Mexico
d)
United States to Canada
13.
Who was the Captain of the Banking Industry?
a)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Andrew Carnegie
d)
J.P. Morgan
14.
What do we call it when someone has complete control over an industry?
a)
big business
b)
money
c)
monopoly
d)
competition
15.
Immigrants to the US in the period from 1870-1900 were called
a)
Old Lights
b)
New Immigrants
c)
Birds of Passage
d)
New Wave
16.
The idea that the people born in a country are against immigrants to that country is called
a)
Assimilation
b)
Nativism
c)
Trumpism
d)
Discrimination
17.
Which of the following was NOT a reason immigrants came to the US in the period 1865-1900?
a)
Escaping religious persecution
b)
Finding jobs
c)
Political Unrest
d)
Get away from advanced technology
18.
An apartment building in the slums of cities is called a
a)
Flophouse
b)
Homeless Shelter
c)
Tenement
d)
Skyscraper
19.
What is this called?
a)
firehose
b)
fire escape
c)
water
20.
Conditions were hazardous at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory.
a)
True
b)
False
21.
What was the disastrous event that happened at the Factory?
a)
a gunman
b)
a stampede
c)
a fire
d)
an outbreak of sickness
22.
Because of fire in 1911, today it is illegal to _______ any doors of a building from the inside.
a)
close
b)
lock
c)
open
23.
Most of the workers in Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were men.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire caused
a)
improved fire equipment
b)
building codes to include fire escapes
c)
safety elevators
d)
all of the above
25.
When handmade products were replaced by machines and mass production
a)
industrialization
b)
revitalization
c)
reconstruction
d)
urbanization
26.
a highly populated city area
a)
rural
b)
urban
c)
suburban
d)
agricultural
27.
immigration center in San Francisco Bay
a)
Ellis Island
b)
Angel Island
c)
Hawaiian Island
d)
Long Island
28.
rapid immigration caused
a)
cities to grow
b)
pollution to increase
c)
changes in culture
d)
all of the above
29.
Before the Civil War, ____________ factories were small and family-run.
a)
few
b)
most
30.
Workers suffering low pay, long hours, and unhealthful conditions which threatened the well being of workers. Many found ways to fight back. Some refused to work. This action is called a _________.
a)
census
b)
injunction
c)
strike
d)
anarchist
31.
In 1911, a fire broke out in the ________________, a sweatshop in New York City. Nearly, 150 people, mostly young women, lost their lives in the fire. The deaths shocked the public.
a)
Haymarket Square
b)
Tiananmen Square
c)
Triangle Shirtwaist
d)
New England
32.
This political cartoon depicts what 1911 tragedy in NYC?
a)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
b)
Boss Tweed's corruption
c)
Sinking of the Titanic
d)
Child Labor
33.
Formation of national labor unions in the late 1800's was mainly because of
a)
passage of laws that supported workers
b)
laws restricting immigration
c)
poor working conditions and low wages
d)
economic depression that led to high unemployment
34.
Group of works who collective bargain to get higher pay, more rights and better working conditions
a)
Soviet Union
b)
Labor Union
c)
Commune
d)
Trade Federation
35.
Industrialization allowed for our country to go from _______ to ________
a)
consumer, producer
b)
handmade production , machine made production
c)
Captain of Industry, Robber Baron
d)
Rich, poor
36.
In this political cartoon, how do monopolies (like Standard Oil Trust) impact competition?
a)
Competition is encouraged by monopolies
b)
competition is prevented by monopolies
c)
there is no impact
d)
I don't know whats happening here
37.
What is laissez-faire?
a)
A belief that the government should not interfere in the economy.
b)
Government should control the economy.
c)
Government should regulate the economy.
d)
Government should control the people.
38.
What is one reason why employers would hire women instead of men?
a)
Women work harder
b)
Women can do more difficult tasks
c)
Women have more work experience than men
d)
Employers could pay women less money
39.
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
a)
capitalistic
b)
economic
c)
philanthropy
d)
capitalism
40.
An organization owned by many people but by law as though it was a single person
a)
Corporation
b)
Horizontal Integration
c)
Trust
d)
Pool
41.
What is the name of the turning point in History that resulted in several new inventions, factories producing things, and people moving to big cities?
a)
American Revolution
b)
Agriculture
c)
Industrial Revolution
d)
William Penn
42.
Who pioneered the assembly line in 1913?
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Henry Benz
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Ford Wrangler
43.
The process that makes steel faster and cheaper by blowing hot air into the furnace during the iron-melting stage is called_____.
a)
Synthesis process
b)
Bessemer process
c)
Carnegie process
d)
Steel making process
44.
Settlement houses provided services to poor immigrants by:
a)
giving out financial assistance
b)
relocating immigrants to ethnic ghettos
c)
teaching and job skill classes
d)
connecting them with government services
45.
This political cartoon from the Gilded Age is critical of
a)
workers
b)
farmers
c)
government
d)
the Standard Oil monopoly
46.
Which of the following best summarizes the message of the cartoon?
a)
Business and government are working together to help people
b)
Immigration benefits society
c)
Robber Barons have too much power over government
d)
The government is stronger than business
47.
Tenement housing during the Gilded Age could best be described as
a)
unsanitary
b)
luxurious
c)
middle class
d)
safe
48.
Which of the following believed equality could be achieved through vocational education and accepted social segregation?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Frederick Douglass
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
49.
Which of the following was upheld by the Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson?
a)
Chinese Exclusion Act
b)
Prohibition
c)
Jim Crow Laws
d)
Voting Rights
50.
The picture shows which negative effect of industrialization?
a)
High wages were earned
b)
Short working hours
c)
Safe working conditions
d)
Child labor was used
51.
The 19th Amendment dealt with what?
a)
Prohibition of alcohol
b)
Women’s right to vote
c)
Naturalization laws
d)
Abolition of slavery
52.
Which African American leader believed in full political, civil and social rights rather than to accept social segregation?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
J.P. Morgan
c)
W.E.B. DuBois
d)
Frederick Douglass
53.
Which laws were passed to discriminate against African Americans?
a)
18th Amendment
b)
Temperance laws
c)
Jim Crow laws
d)
14th Amendment
54.
True or False. Muckrakers was a reporter who "raked" or "exposed" the "muck" or dirt and corruption of businesses, inequalities, and poor city life.
a)
True
b)
False
55.
What amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
56.
What amendment made alcohol illegal?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
57.
This group was created to reform racial problems.
a)
KKK
b)
NAACP
c)
YMCA
d)
AASC
58.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire created what?
a)
Building Codes
b)
Workers Rights
c)
Higher Wages
d)
Meat Inspection Act
59.
Income Tax
a)
12th Amendment
b)
16th Amendment
c)
17th Amendment
d)
18th Amendment
60.
Direct Election of Senators
a)
16th Amendment
b)
17th Amendment
c)
20th Amendment
d)
24th Amendment
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