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Ch 9 - Industrialization & Immigration

Total questions: 51

Worksheet time: 49mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which form of transportation was

MOST important to development west

of the Mississippi River during the 19th

century?

a)

steamboats

b)

railroads

c)

canals

d)

roads

2.

Another word for describing a big city is what?

a)

rural

b)

suburban

c)

urban

d)

super-politan

3.

What industry did Pittsburgh become the center of?

a)

Cotton

b)

Steel

c)

Automoblies

d)

Airplanes

4.

A corporation is owned by

a)

Just one person who runs it

b)

many people who have invested

5.

A monopoly does this to its competitors to control an industry

a)

Wipes out its competitors

b)

Splits into many smaller companies

c)

Gives money to many charities

d)

Cooperates with other companies to have competition

6.

Monopolies hurt customers by lowering prices and decreasing competition.

a)

True

b)

False

7.
Why was steel so important? What was it used for?
a)
Used to make artillery and weapons
b)
Cheap to import from China
c)
It came from Minnesota
d)
Strong. Used for bridges, railways, nails, & skyscrapers 
8.
Define a monopoly.
a)
A card game
b)
businesses that are owned by investors
c)
A company controls all or most of businesses in an industry.
d)
Poor families
9.
Describe John D. Rockefeller.
a)
Built a steel empire
b)
powerful banker
c)
Owned Standard Oil Company 
d)
Had a steel Monopoly
10.
 How was mass production of products a good thing?
a)
Made it easier to own companies & build corporations
b)
It organized labor in the factories
c)
Made products cheaper & more available
d)
Made communication easier
11.
What were some problems that the people in factories encountered?
a)
long hours, good pay
b)
Low wages, long hours, dangerous
c)
dangerous, long hours, good pay
d)
low wages, good hours. dangerous
12.
How did Andrew Carnegie make his money?
a)
Oil
b)
Steel
c)
Banking
d)
Railroad
13.
 What are stocks?
a)
Parts or “shares” in a corporation 
b)
Businesses that are owned by investors
c)
Monopolies
d)
The money made by a company
14.
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
Vertical Integration
c)
Monopoly
d)
Laissez-Faire
15.
Used to make steel quickly and cheaply by injecting air into iron to remove impurities.
a)
Carnegie Process
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
Rockefeller Process
d)
Drake Process
16.
Invented the Light bulb.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Edwin Drake
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
17.
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
Horizontal Integration
c)
Trust
d)
Corporation
18.
Created by the government to try and stop monopolies.
a)
Clayton Anti-trust Act
b)
Interstate Commerce Act
c)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
d)
Social Darwinism
19.
List of troublemakers used by business owners to keep out unwanted employees.
a)
Lockout
b)
Blacklist
c)
Redlist
d)
Pinkertons
20.
The government does not interfere in the economy except to protect property rights and maintain peace.
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
Horizontal Integration
c)
Vertical Integration
d)
Laissez-Faire
21.
Tax on imports and/or exports.
a)
Subsidy
b)
Tariff
c)
Capital
d)
Laissez-Faire
22.

When a company controls everything from raw materials to the distribution of the product

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

c)

trust

d)

monopoly

23.

When a combination of companies control an industry to reduce competition

a)

monopoly

b)

trust

c)

laissez faire

d)

patent

24.

a combination of companies

a)

merger

b)

laissez faire

c)

patent

d)

unions

25.

the idea that industrialists exploited workers, the environment, and corrupted the gov't

a)

captains of industry

b)

robber barons

c)

horizontal merger

d)

trusts

26.

Owning businesses in a certain field

a)

Vertical integration

b)

Horizontal Integration

c)

Diagonal Integration

d)

Corporation

27.

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act made it illegal to create monopolies that restrained trade.

a)

True

b)

False

28.
A business concept that pressures competitors and forces rivals to merge their companies into a conglomerate.
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
Vertical Integration
c)
Management Revolution
d)
Trust
29.
A model in which a company controlled all aspects of production from raw materials to finished goods.
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
Horizontal Integration
c)
Management Revolution
d)
Trust
30.
People who cross the picket line and report for work are referred to as ___________________.
a)
picket line
b)
 scabs
c)
picketing
d)
unions 
31.
The process by which unions and management negotiate the provisions of a new contract, including benefits and pay is referred to by what term?
a)
Union Organizer
b)
Arbitration
c)
Collective Bargaining 
d)
Collective Agreement
32.

What conditions led to the development of labor unions? (choose 2)

a)

Arbitration

b)

low wages and long hours

c)

strikes

d)

unsafe working conditions

e)

Collective bargaining

33.

Labor unions worked to ___________ wages and _____________ working hours.

a)

increased , decreased

b)

decreased , increased

c)

collective bargaining , strikes

d)

strikes, collective bargaining.

34.

Labor unions tried to improve working conditions through ______________________.

a)

decreased

b)

increased

c)

collective bargaining

d)

strike.

35.

If their preferred method to improve working conditions failed, labor unions would sometimes use ______________, which occasionally led to violence.

a)

decreased

b)

increased

c)

collective bargaining

d)

strike

36.
This man invented the telephone. 
a)
Alexander Graham Bell 
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Wright Brothers
d)
George Washington Carver
37.

The need for a reliable source of oil prompted __________ to prove that it was possible to pump crude directly from the ground.

a)

Edwin L. Drake

b)

Erica I. Durmont

c)

Edward G. Drummer

d)

Elizabeth H. Dinson

38.
What was the first permanent labor union; it used strikes as a tactic?
a)
American Federation of Labor
b)
Labor Goals
c)
International Workers of the World
d)
Knights of Columbus
39.
The Pullman Strike was a peaceful strike. 
a)
True
b)
False
40.

What started the riot at the Haymarket Square protest?

a)

The mayor showed up.

b)

A bomb was hurled in the air.

c)

The police fired on the protestors.

d)

The union activists ordered workers to riot.

41.
A shirt making company located on the upper floors of a building catching fire and led to several deaths of the women working there
a)
Nike Factory Fire
b)
Circle Shirtwaist Fire
c)
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
d)
Standard Oil Fire
42.

The IWW's socialist and radical ideas were influenced by:

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

Karl Marx

c)

JP Morgan

d)

Thomas Edison

43.
Most immigrants on the East Coast were processed where?
a)
Washington, D.C.
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Baltimore
44.
What processing station did Immigrants go through on the WEST coast?
a)
Ellis Island
b)
Angel Island
c)
Devil Island
d)
Alcatraz
45.
Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?
a)
Melting Pot
b)
Birds of Passage
c)
Nativism
d)
All of the above
46.
What is a tenement?
a)
A new form of transportation
b)
Poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings
c)
The end of immigration
d)
A revolutionary war in Africa
47.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
a)
Letting Chinese in America with open arms
b)
Banning Chinese people from immigrating to the United States for 10 years
c)
The Europeans taking over China
d)
Italians Immigrating to China
48.
Immigrants came to America to escape
a)
religious persecution
b)
famine
c)
poor economies
d)
all of the above
49.

Something that attracts people to a place or activity.

a)

push factor

b)

pull factor

50.

Something that causes people to want to leave a place or situation

a)

push factor

b)

pull factor

51.

Learning to dress speak and look like other Americans

a)

Americanization

b)

Nativist

c)

National identity

d)

Immigrant

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