WorksheetsGrowth of the Nation Quiz 5/11-5/15
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
Define the term Urbanization.
The movement of people to the West for more resources.
The movement of people going to cities where factories are located.
The movement of people to the South.
Urban dictionary's cousin.
What was important about the Transcontinental Railroad?
It connected the United States to Mexico.
It was Thomas the Tank Engine's father.
It went from the North of the country to the South.
It linked all parts of the nation together.
What was the Grange movement?
Farmers united for economic reform.
Farmers united for social reform.
Farmers united for a cooler name.
Rich people united for economic reform.
Why did the Populist Party want to inflate the economy?
To make it easier for farmers to get rich.
To make it easier to pay off loans for farmers.
To make it easier for the rich to get richer.
To make it easier for the President to get re-elected.
What is Horizontal Integration?
Companies fighting one another for resources.
Companies selling their company for more money than what they paid.
Companies buying out all their suppliers.
Companies buying out all similar companies to decrease competition.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
A man who owned 90% of the oil industry.
An American shipping and railroad magnate.
An American financier and industrial organzier.
Somebody that Ms. Hubbard went to highschool with.
What does the term "Laissez Faire" mean?
The government controlling all of a businesses moves.
The French government.
The government having a hands off approach to business.
The government starting their own business as competition.
What does it mean to go on strike?
Workers refuse to work and protest near the facility.
Workers refuse to work and call their mom to pick them up.
Workers work extra hours to make more money.
Workers run a secret underground fight club that they don't talk about.
What is a Melting Pot?
Generations of immigrants that have maintained many of the cultural aspects of their native lands.
Generations of immigrants over time that have melted together and have abandoned their culture.
A restaurant where you can dip things in cheese.
Generations of immigrants who decide to move back to their native lands after struggling in America.
Who were Muckrakers?
Novelists and reporters who exposed the unsafe conditions in factories, tenement houses, and other urban areas.
Writers who talked about who nice factories were.
Novelists and reporters who exposed the workers were stealing from factories.
People who like to bathe in mud.
