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WorksheetsIndustrial Age/Progressive Era (Ch. 19-20)
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
The "Industrial Age" was the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States
False
True
Immigrants who originated from Asian countries such as China first went through which immigration station?
Ellis Island near New York City
Ellis Island near Washington D.C.
Angel Island near San Francisco
Angel Island near Florida
What was the novel "The Jungle" mostly about?
the diseases present in small tenement apartments
The fight for women to gain suffrage
The growth of forests in the western US
the unsanitary and unsafe conditions of a meatpacking plant in Chicago
why did many immigrants and poor people live in tenements?
many immigrants and poor people were discriminated against and could not rent elsewhere
many people couldn't afford better housing
limited housing options in cities
all of the above
The exclusive right to make or sell an invention or product is called...
a patent
a monopoly
a trust
horizontal integration
What is a type of business in which many people own shares/parts of that business?
Trust
Patent
Corporation
Collective Bargaining
Where did immigrants tend to settle in America?
Near family & friends
Big urban areas
Neighborhoods of their ethnic group
all of the above
Immigrants who came before 1880 and were from Northern & Western Europe were called...
New Immigrants
Old Immigrants
Modern Immigrants
What is a monopoly?
A company with NO competition
A company that only sells one product
A company that likes to "buy out" other companies
A company that sells stock shares
What is an organization that tries to improve working conditions and protect workers' rights?
Collective Bargaining
Settlement House
Pullman Strike
Labor Union
One cause of labor strikes in the late 1800s was that workers wanted what?
Social Darwinism
lower wages
shorter workdays
fewer safety rules
Which of the following groups moved in large numbers from the South to the North in the 1890s?
Chinese Immigrants
Asian Americans
white southerners
African Americans
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?
Journalists
Progressives
Suffragists
Industrialists
Which of the following turned violent in Chicago when someone threw a bomb into a group of police officers?
Haymarket Riot
Pullman Strike
Homestead Strike
Gompers Strike
The Pullman Strike was a strike
that stopped traffic on many railroad lines until federal courts ordered the workers to return to their jobs.
True
False
What is it called when workers are acting together to negotiate with management?
Labor Unions
Strike
Trust
Collective Bargaining
Which of the following was a violent strike that took place at Andrew Carnegie's steel factory in Pennsylvania?
Homestead Strike
Haymarket Riot
The Great Strike
Pullman Strike
What lead to the Chinese Exclusion Act?
competing Japanese interests in the United States
rapidly growing cities and anti-immigrant feelings
immigrants from Europe wanted to use Angel Island for themselves
Which of the following was NOT an inventor of the late 1800s?
Henry Ford
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
A well built building with windows was known as a tenement.
True
False
Which of the following was NOT offered at Settlement Houses like Hull House?
living quarters
help finding jobs
English Language Classes
labor union membership
Who wrote the novel "The Jungle"?
Henry Riis
Upton Sinclair
Samuel Gompers
JP Morgan
Which person was an industrialist in the 1800s who made their money by refining OIL through the Standard Oil Company?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
Cornelius Vanderbilt
A legal arrangement that groups together a number of company under a single board of directors is called what?
a trust
vertical integration
a monopoly
a corporation
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?
Assembly Line
Henry Bessemer Process
Electric Transformers
Engine Powered Glider
Which amendment, created during the Progressive Era, banned the making and selling of alcohol?
13th Amendment
18th Amendment
19th Amendment
21st Amendment
Which person was the leader and founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Upton Sinclair
JP Morgan
Samuel Gompers
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Which invention, which was built mostly by Chinese immigrants, allowed for goods to be sent more easily across the US?
Telegraph
Steam Powered Engine
Assembly Line
Transcontinental Railroad
Immigrants who were new to the US tended to settle in rural areas, away from family and others in their ethnic group.
True
False
What is the business practice where a company purchases many business of the same type?
Vertical Integration
Corporations
Monopoly
Horizontal Integration
