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History Unit Practice

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is child labor?

a)

Parents give their children chores to do for an allowance of $20 a week

b)

Children as young as six years old working for little to no pay for 12-14 hours

c)

Teenagers getting their first job

d)

Children starting at a young age to work for a few hours and get small wages

2.

What were the effects of industrialization?

a)

The rise of organized labor and important workplace reforms

b)

Larger railroad transportation

c)

Better ventilation

d)

The loss of child labor, poor working conditions, etc.

3.

What is an example of poor working conditions

a)

No lunch breaks

b)

No safety requirements

c)

Loss of limbs for life

d)

Smoke in buildings with no vents

4.

What job do you think the kids are doing?

a)

Making Bouquets

b)

Waitering

c)

Selling Newspapers

5.

What is a progressive movement?

a)

Movement that wanted to improve on wanting

b)

To make better by removal of faults

c)

Written agreement not to join a Union

d)

List of workers who were Union members

6.

What is reform?

a)

When workers could not enter a plant

b)

1892 union strike against steel plant in Pennsylvania

c)

To make better by removal of faults

d)

A Union formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers-had skilled workers only

7.

How long were average work hours?

a)

10 hours a week

b)

40 hours a week

c)

The whole week, no breaks

d)

50 hours a week

8.

Child Labor was fair

a)

True

b)

False

9.

What is an immigrant?

a)

A person who comes to another country to live and work

b)

Limiting the rights and freedoms of individuals

c)

A party organization headed by a single boss or group that commands enough votes to maintain political control of a city

10.

Why did immigrants come to America?

a)

Hope for better opportunities

b)

The desire for religious freedom

c)

The escape from oppressive governments

d)

The desire of adventure

11.

Who were some of the immigrants?

a)

Irish

b)

American

c)

Chinese

d)

Italian

12.

What did immigrants live in?

a)

Apartments

b)

Townhouses

c)

Tenements

d)

Mansions

13.

What is a robber baron?

a)

Someone who bribes people to get what they want

b)

A person who has become rich through ruthless business practices

c)

A person who decides to kill people for money

d)

Someone who robs a bank

14.

Who is William "Boss" Tweed?

a)

A robber baron

b)

A corrupt politician who bought his way into great power

15.

Who is this?

a)

Boss Tweed

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Washington

d)

Fredrick Douglass

16.

What amendment gave women free rights?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

21th

d)

15th

17.

Who invented the lightbulb?

a)

Mathew Evans

b)

Alexander Graham Bell

c)

Thomas Edison

18.

Some children lost their limbs or got badly injured because of child labor

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Children got a lot of pay with child labor

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Which amendment was the prohibition of alcohol?

a)

18th

b)

19th

c)

21st

d)

15th