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WorksheetsChapter 4 Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins
New technologies in the steel industry in the late 1800s increased productivity in the _____.
textile industry.
railroad industry.
oil industry.
electric industry.
The Homestead Strike was a protest _____.
in Colorado demanding safer working conditions.
in Chicago demanding an eight-hour workday.
against the Pullman Palace Car Company’s unsafe working conditions.
against the Carnegie Steel Company’s plan to cut jobs.
The invention of the airplane led to increased demand for _____.
aluminum.
lumber.
coal.
oil.
How did the labor force change during the Second Industrial Revolution?
Machines eliminated (got rid of) the jobs of many skilled
craftspeople.
Industries began to hire highly educated workers.
Workers began to receive more benefits and higher
wages.
Experienced workers replaced children who had been working in mills.
Andrew Carnegie dealt with striking union workers at his Pennsylvania steel factory in 1892 by _____.
firing every worker and replacing them with machines.
firing half the workers and cutting pay for the rest.
locking workers out of the factory and hiring strike breakers.
agreeing to give workers higher wages.
Of the following, which was an effect of the expansion of railroads across the United States?
rapid growth of cities
increase in steel prices
decrease in interstate trade
movement of city dwellers to the suburbs
Which of the following was an effect of factory specialization in the late 1800s?
Workers repeated the same steps over and over again, becoming tired, bored, and more likely to be injured.
Factories produced only a single product, putting owners at greater financial risk if that product failed.
Unions signed contracts with specific factories, eliminating violent conflicts over wages and working hours.
Managers paid more attention to working conditions, attracting workers and creating greater competition for jobs.
Collective bargaining is the _____.
practice used by employers to hire groups of laborers.
practice used by employers to get the cheapest labor
possible.
idea that laborers working in groups are more productive
in the workplace.
idea that laborers acting together have greater success in negotiating with management.
How was the telegraph different from the telephone?
The telegraph could work only in big cities.
The telegraph was much more expensive than the telephone.
The telegraph could carry only written messages.
The telegraph could not send messages over long distances.
What does the cartoon show?
Rockefeller’s fading control of the oil industry in America
the U.S. government’s control of big business
Rockefeller using money to control of the U.S. government
the U.S. government’s failed attempt to regulate the steel industry
The telephone is the most well-known of _____’s inventions.
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
_____ own a corporation, but they do not make its day-to-day today business decisions or pay its bills.
CEOs
Stockholders
Terence V. Powderly became leader of the _____ in 1879.
American Railway Union
Knights of Labor
Wilbur and Orville Wright built a lightweight airplane that ran on a _____-powered engine.
steam
gas
At a protest in Chicago’s _____, a bomb killed eight police officers and injured many others.
Haymarket Square
Lincoln Square
John D. Rockefeller’s control of about 90 percent of the oil refining business is an example of this
horizontal integration
social Darwinism
corporations
Bessemer process
This person owned businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process in his industry
Knights of Labor
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
This person led the American Federation of Labor
Henry Ford
Grover Cleveland
Samuel Gompers
Knights of Labor
This was the first national labor union
Knights of Labor
Sherman Antitrust Act
horizontal integration
corporations
This person made manufacturing more efficient with the
moving assembly line
Grover Cleveland
Frederick W. Taylor
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
This person is the inventor of the light bulb
Samuel Gompers
Thomas Edison
Frederick W. Taylor
Grover Cleveland
This made it illegal to create monopolies
Sherman Antitrust Act
social Darwinism
Bessemer process
horizontal integration
This made steel production quicker and cheaper, which then created a booming railroad industry
Bessemer process
Thomas Edison
Knights of Labor
social Darwinism
This is the idea that those who were “fittest” or "best" would be successful in business and life
Grover Cleveland
corporations
social Darwinism
Bessemer process
This person encouraged managers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
Frederick W. Taylor
