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WorksheetsWG Chapter 5 & 6 Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 15mins
If rain falls on the eastern side of the continental divide, to which ocean does it eventually flow?
Pacific
Arctic
Atlantic
Indian
Which of the following landforms do the US and Canada share? (Select all that apply)
Rocky Mountains
Interior Plains
Appalachian Mountains
Piedmont
Gulf lowland plains
Horizontal integration does which of the following?
(Pictured: John D. Rockefeller)
Process of buying out all competitors within an industry.
Process of demonopolizing a single industry.
Process of buying out all suppliers of an industry.
Process of buying regulation control for a non-related industry.
Vertical integration does which of the following?
(Pictured: Andrew Carnegie)
Process of buying out all competitors within an industry.
Process of demonopolizing a single industry.
Process of buying out all suppliers of an industry.
Process of buying regulation control for a non-related industry.
What product is produced from Iron under the Bessemer process?
Steel
Coal
Nickel
Copper
Which of the following are PULL factors?
(Select all that apply)
Availability of land
War
Economic instability
Famine
Strict religious controls
An industrial (and post-industrial) state has moved away from what type of activity as its primary source of income?
Business services
High-end technology
Agriculture
Manufacturing
Which of the following characteristics apply to "New Immigrants" to the United States? Those that largely came after the Civil War. (Select all that apply)
Jewish
Broadly North-European
Southern European
Catholic
Protestant
What economic activity belongs to the service sector? (Select all that apply)
Industrial manufactuing
Restaurant and food occupations
Oil and gas refining
Financial services and banking
Technology research and development
Urbanization is best defined as:
Growth of cities due to industrialization and immigration
A culture becoming more urbane over time
Movement of ideas, people, and things across many cultures
The late-stage development of a capitalist economy
Assimilation is best defined as:
when a society changes because it accepts or adopts an innovation
creating something new, from existing technology and resources, to fill a need
spread of ideas, inventions, or patterns of behavior
process of becoming similar to something
Which of the following would be an industrial sector activity? (select all that apply)
restaurant and food service
teaching and education
oil refining
light industrial manufacturing
mass-production of clothing
Which region of the United States is associated with a long history of slavery, agriculture, and low levels of immigration
The Northeast
The Southwest
The South
The West Coast
What subregion of the country has both a large financial and industrial sector, is home to several megalopolis, and contains many of the original 13 colonies?
The West Coast
The Northeast
The Southwest
The Midwest
What economic system is best associated with the United States?
Traditionalism
Socialism
Capitalism
Communism
Which economy is the world's largest?
China
The United States
Germany
Russia
Many of Louisiana's primary agricultural products like Rice, Sugarcane, and Crawfish are examples of what type of agriculture production?
Specialized horitculture
Dairy farming
Livestock ranching
Commercial grain
One DISADVANTAGE of a post-industrial economy could be:
Higher levels of employment
Decrease in average cost of goods
Increase in standard of living
Decrease in manufacturing jobs
How did the Homestead Act encourage Americans' westward expansion?
By offering 150 acres to potential settlers
By excluding people of Chinese ancestry from immigrating to the United States
By forcing Native Americans to assimilate to American culture
By making manifest destiny a law
Which of the following would advocates of Social Darwinism prefer?
Aiding poor or impoverished new immigrants
Allowing markets to monopolize or centralize on their own
Relieving the tensions of race by implementing government programs
Wealthy people following the gospel of wealth
Which of the following best describes an ethnic group?
a group sharing language, customs, and common heritage
a group sharing physical space within the same state
a group sharing a sense of identity and culture
a group sharing new inventions or ideas
Which of the following factors led to the Industrial Boom in the U.S.?
explosion of inventions
assimilation of subordinated cultural groups
wealth of natural resources
growing urban population
agrarian economic orientation
Which piece of legislation would a Nativist likely support?
An immigration reform bill
Chinese exclusion act
The addition of Spanish as a national language in the US
Lowering tariffs on many manufactured goods
TRUE OR FALSE: "New Immigrants" often faced prejudice from the older waves of immigrants to the United States at the end of the 1900s.
True
False
Which of the following were examples of Robber Barons? (Select all that apply)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
