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WorksheetsGilded age/Industrialization vocab quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.
a)
geopolitical
b)
political bosses
c)
anthropolgy
d)
philanthropy
2.
In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Ida Wells
d)
Jacob Riis
3.
A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.
a)
monopoly
b)
corporation
c)
trust
d)
horizontal Integration
4.
Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Sherman AntiTrust Act
d)
Dawes Act
5.
True or False. Vertical Integration combines all similar companies into one corporation.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
What is a pull factor?
a)
Reason to leave
b)
Reason to come
c)
Reason to stay
7.
The Chinese Exclusion Act prevented Chinese immigrating to the U.S. for how many years?
a)
1 year
b)
5 years
c)
7 years
d)
10 years
8.
Economic philosophy based on "Survival of the fittest"
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
National Market
c)
Knights of Labor
d)
Free Enterprise System
9.
complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition
a)
Robber Barons
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Monopoly
d)
Philanthropy
10.
Scottish immigrant made his fortune in steelmaking, known for “Gospel of Wealth”
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Samuel Gompers
d)
Thomas Edison
11.
theory that rich were obligated to help communities by giving back in the form of libraries, school, universities but not giving directly to individuals
a)
National Market
b)
Philanthropy
c)
Gospel of Wealth
d)
Laissez-faire
12.
process which made steel more affordable and profitable
a)
Gospel of Wealth
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Smelting
d)
Monopoly
13.
The banning of alcohol.
a)
Institution
b)
Referendum
c)
Principal
d)
Prohibition
14.
Apartments in cities that were overcrowded and rundown
a)
Tenements
b)
Townhomes
c)
Sidements
d)
Vacaments
15.
Reform campaign that tried to apply the teachings of Jesus Christ directly to society.
a)
Laissez Faire
b)
Social Gospel Movement
c)
Blue Laws
d)
Quarantine
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