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Industrial Age/Progressive Era (Ch. 19-20)

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The "Industrial Age" was the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States

a)

False

b)

True

2.

Immigrants who originated from Asian countries such as China first went through which immigration station?

a)

Ellis Island near New York City

b)

Ellis Island near Washington D.C.

c)

Angel Island near San Francisco

d)

Angel Island near Florida

3.

What was the novel "The Jungle" mostly about?

a)

the diseases present in small tenement apartments

b)

The fight for women to gain suffrage

c)

The growth of forests in the western US

d)

the unsanitary and unsafe conditions of a meatpacking plant in Chicago

4.

why did many immigrants and poor people live in tenements?

a)

many immigrants and poor people were discriminated against and could not rent elsewhere

b)

many people couldn't afford better housing

c)

limited housing options in cities

d)

all of the above

5.

The exclusive right to make or sell an invention or product is called...

a)

a patent

b)

a monopoly

c)

a trust

d)

horizontal integration

6.

What is a type of business in which many people own shares/parts of that business?

a)

Trust

b)

Patent

c)

Corporation

d)

Collective Bargaining

7.

Where did immigrants tend to settle in America?


a)

Near family & friends

b)

Big urban areas

c)

Neighborhoods of their ethnic group

d)

all of the above

8.

Immigrants who came before 1880 and were from Northern & Western Europe were called...

a)

New Immigrants

b)

Old Immigrants

c)

Modern Immigrants

9.

What is a monopoly?

a)

A company with NO competition

b)

A company that only sells one product

c)

A company that likes to "buy out" other companies

d)

A company that sells stock shares

10.

What is an organization that tries to improve working conditions and protect workers' rights?

a)

Collective Bargaining

b)

Settlement House

c)

Pullman Strike

d)

Labor Union

11.

One cause of labor strikes in the late 1800s was that workers wanted what?

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

lower wages

c)

shorter workdays

d)

fewer safety rules

12.

Which of the following groups moved in large numbers from the South to the North in the 1890s?

a)

Chinese Immigrants

b)

Asian Americans

c)

white southerners

d)

African Americans

13.

What was the name for reformers who think government should make laws to make society better-factories safer & cleaner, laws to protect workers, child labor laws, and safer food?

a)

Journalists

b)

Progressives

c)

Suffragists

d)

Industrialists

14.

Which of the following turned violent in Chicago when someone threw a bomb into a group of police officers?

a)

Haymarket Riot

b)

Pullman Strike

c)

Homestead Strike

d)

Gompers Strike

15.

The Pullman Strike was a strike

that stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

What is it called when workers are acting together to negotiate with management?

a)

Labor Unions

b)

Strike

c)

Trust

d)

Collective Bargaining

17.

Which of the following was a violent strike that took place at Andrew Carnegie's steel factory in Pennsylvania?

a)

Homestead Strike

b)

Haymarket Riot

c)

The Great Strike

d)

Pullman Strike

18.

What lead to the Chinese Exclusion Act?

a)

competing Japanese interests in the United States

b)

rapidly growing cities and anti-immigrant feelings

c)

immigrants from Europe wanted to use Angel Island for themselves

19.

Which of the following was NOT an inventor of the late 1800s?

a)

Henry Ford

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Thomas Edison

d)

John D. Rockefeller

20.

A well built building with windows was known as a tenement.

a)

True

b)

False

21.

Which of the following was NOT offered at Settlement Houses like Hull House?

a)

living quarters

b)

help finding jobs

c)

English Language Classes

d)

labor union membership

22.

Who wrote the novel "The Jungle"?

a)

Henry Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Samuel Gompers

d)

JP Morgan

23.

Which person was an industrialist in the 1800s who made their money by refining OIL through the Standard Oil Company?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Henry Ford

d)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

24.

A legal arrangement that groups together a number of company under a single board of directors is called what?

a)

a trust

b)

vertical integration

c)

a monopoly

d)

a corporation

25.

Invented in the Industrial Age, this was a way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply by blasting hot air through melted iron to quickly remove impurities?

a)

Assembly Line

b)

Henry Bessemer Process

c)

Electric Transformers

d)

Engine Powered Glider

26.

Which amendment, created during the Progressive Era, banned the making and selling of alcohol?

a)

13th Amendment

b)

18th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

d)

21st Amendment

27.

Which person was the leader and founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

JP Morgan

c)

Samuel Gompers

d)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

28.

Which invention, which was built mostly by Chinese immigrants, allowed for goods to be sent more easily across the US?

a)

Telegraph

b)

Steam Powered Engine

c)

Assembly Line

d)

Transcontinental Railroad

29.

Immigrants who were new to the US tended to settle in rural areas, away from family and others in their ethnic group.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

What is the business practice where a company purchases many business of the same type?

a)

Vertical Integration

b)

Corporations

c)

Monopoly

d)

Horizontal Integration