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Progressive Movement/Industrialization Quizziz Rev

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was John D. Rockefeller's strategy for economic control of the oil business?

a)

Cooperative

b)

Association

c)

Monopoly

2.

Andrew Carnegie was the captain of what industry?

a)

Steel

b)

Meatpacking

c)

Automobile

3.

What was captain of the oil industry?

a)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

John D. Rockefeller

4.

Before World War I, which factor helped transform the United States from an agricultural to an industrial nation?

a)

A lack of new inventions

b)

Lower production costs

c)

Declining financial resources

5.

Whose invention of the phonograph and other electrical devices made this event possible?

a)

Alexander Graham Bell

b)

Frank Lloyd Wright

c)

Thomas Edison

6.

Which of these BEST describes Andrew Carnegie?

a)

A Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in the steel business

b)

A automaker from Michigan who used the assembly to mass produce affordable cars

c)

A philanthropist who used a monopoly to control the oil industry

7.

What individual made their inventions important to the growing economy because of electrification?

a)

Thomas Edison

b)

Henry Ford

c)

Garrett Morgan

8.

Which title best describes the graphic?

a)

Reasons for socialism

b)

Factors of capitalism

c)

Factors for Industrial Growth and Success

9.

Identify three negative effects of the Industrialization.

a)

Unsafe working conditions

b)

Growth of cities

c)

Long working hours

d)

Child Labor

e)

Rise of the middle class/technological advancements

10.

Which is NOT an example of a big business in the years following the Civil War?

a)

Railroads

b)

Agriculture

c)

Steel

d)

Oil

11.

Two inventions that contributed to change and industrial growth were electricity and-

a)

locomotives

b)

telephone service

c)

steam engines

d)

telegraph machines

12.

Select the statements that refer to post-Civil War changes in farming and city life.

a)

Less people needed to work on farms because of machines/mechanization

b)

More industries needed more workers in cities

c)

Industrialization provided access to consumer goods

d)

More people needed to work farms

13.

Andrew Carnegie is to steel industry as Cornelius Vanderbilt is to-

a)

Textile industry

b)

Oil industry

c)

Shipping and railroad industries

d)

Automobile industry

14.

What amendment led to the prohibition of alcoholic beverages?

a)

19th

b)

22nd

c)

18th

d)

23rd

15.

You could do all of the following at Hull House EXCEPT-

a)

Voting advice

b)

learn English

c)

listen to poetry

d)

study American culture

16.

Which two women were influential in gaining women's suffrage?

a)

Susan B Anthony

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Jane Addams

d)

Rosa Parks

17.

During the Progressive Era, what did African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans have in common in American society?

a)

Segregation

b)

Desegregation

c)

Integration

d)

Assimilation

18.

"When I was 7 years old, I worked in a textile plant for 10 hours a day and didn't have much schooling." "I got one of finger cut off in a spinning machine." "Those days were terrible for me in 1915." What negative effects of industrialization are expressed by this individual?

a)

Increased production

b)

Long hours

c)

Child labor

d)

Technological advances

e)

Unsafe working conditions

19.

Which speaker would MOST LIKELY support the ideas of the Progressive Movement ?

a)

"Only through the break-up of big business will we see improvements in cities!"

b)

"Big business is what America needs to continue to grow!"

c)

"We should thank big businesses for providing jobs in the overcrowded cities!"

d)

"Captains of industry donate large amounts of money to charity."

20.

Which of these individuals would most likely NOT support reforms of the Progressive Movement?

a)

a woman who wants to vote for president

b)

a poor immigrant working in a steel mill

c)

a 8 year old would rather go to school than go to work

d)

a wealthy owner of an auto plant

21.

The negative effect of industrialization pictured above, was made better by which reform movement?

a)

The Temperance Movement

b)

The Progressive Movement

c)

The Suffrage Movement

22.

"Eight hours for work, Eight hours for rest, Eight hours for what we will." -American Federation of Labor (AFL) song In singing this song, what were union members asking for

a)

Shorter workdays

b)

Safer factories

c)

Fewer work holidays

d)

Higher wages

23.

During the early 20th century, this type of scene motivate unions to-

a)

refuse employment to immigrants

b)

increase working hours

c)

limit employment of children

d)

reform education policies

24.

The needs of which group of Americans were NOT specifically addressed by the reforming efforts of the Progressive Movement?

a)

Women

b)

Children

c)

Labor force

d)

Black Americans

25.

Complete the chart.

a)

Manifest Destiny

b)

Reason for westward expansion

c)

Reasons for the rise and prosperity of big business

d)

Factors resulting in growth of industry

26.

Which of the following is an example of a monopoly?

a)

A national market for packaged meat

b)

One company owning the majority of the electric power plants

c)

A large oil company in one state

d)

A transcontinental railroad line

27.

Which man helped industrialize electricity?

a)

Jame Watts

b)

Horatio Alger

c)

Alexander G, Bell

d)

Thomas Edison

28.

In the 1900's, write and author Upton Sinclair wrote a book about the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry in what Midwestern city?

a)

Detroit

b)

Chicago

c)

New York

d)

San Antonio

29.

What famous African American men are represented in this diagram?

a)

Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois

c)

Frederick Douglass and Homer Plessy

d)

Marcus Garvey and Thurgood Marshall

30.

Ida Tarbell was a muckraker journalist who wrote about how unfair Standard Oil was in controlling the oil industry. What captain of industry would be upset at what Ida Tarbell did?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

c)

Henry Ford

d)

John D. Rockefeller