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WorksheetsHistory Unit Practice
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
What is child labor?
Parents give their children chores to do for an allowance of $20 a week
Children as young as six years old working for little to no pay for 12-14 hours
Teenagers getting their first job
Children starting at a young age to work for a few hours and get small wages
What were the effects of industrialization?
The rise of organized labor and important workplace reforms
Larger railroad transportation
Better ventilation
The loss of child labor, poor working conditions, etc.
What is an example of poor working conditions
No lunch breaks
No safety requirements
Loss of limbs for life
Smoke in buildings with no vents
What job do you think the kids are doing?
Making Bouquets
Waitering
Selling Newspapers
What is a progressive movement?
Movement that wanted to improve on wanting
To make better by removal of faults
Written agreement not to join a Union
List of workers who were Union members
What is reform?
When workers could not enter a plant
1892 union strike against steel plant in Pennsylvania
To make better by removal of faults
A Union formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers-had skilled workers only
How long were average work hours?
10 hours a week
40 hours a week
The whole week, no breaks
50 hours a week
Child Labor was fair
True
False
What is an immigrant?
A person who comes to another country to live and work
Limiting the rights and freedoms of individuals
A party organization headed by a single boss or group that commands enough votes to maintain political control of a city
Why did immigrants come to America?
Hope for better opportunities
The desire for religious freedom
The escape from oppressive governments
The desire of adventure
Who were some of the immigrants?
Irish
American
Chinese
Italian
What did immigrants live in?
Apartments
Townhouses
Tenements
Mansions
What is a robber baron?
Someone who bribes people to get what they want
A person who has become rich through ruthless business practices
A person who decides to kill people for money
Someone who robs a bank
Who is William "Boss" Tweed?
A robber baron
A corrupt politician who bought his way into great power
Who is this?
Boss Tweed
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Fredrick Douglass
What amendment gave women free rights?
18th
19th
21th
15th
Who invented the lightbulb?
Mathew Evans
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Some children lost their limbs or got badly injured because of child labor
True
False
Children got a lot of pay with child labor
True
False
Which amendment was the prohibition of alcohol?
18th
19th
21st
15th
