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WorksheetsMid Unit 5 Practice
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Which idea summarizes the Gilded Age?
Many Americans moved west to farm
Native Americans were placed on Reservations
The discovery of Gold increased western migration
Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics
What was an important effect of the invention of the light bulb?
Machines were able to be more efficient
Products were created on the assembly line
Factories could extend working hours
Businesses hired more skilled workers
What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?
By homesteading on the Great Plains
By joining labor unions
By working for Political bosses
Through better education
What was one positive of wealthy industrialists?
Paying their workers low wages
Philanthropic donations to charity
Supporting social darwinism
Working with political machines
From this image, who is in control of the US lawmakers.
Large monopolies
small private business
political machines
labor unions
What legislation is this cartoon referring to?
30 day waiting period for immigration
Deportation after completion of Transcontinental Railroad
Immigration Reduction Act
Chinese Exclusion Act
Why does this image depict Rockefeller so large?
He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors
He was a government inspector looking for corruption
He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government
He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization
What concept does this image refer to?
political machines
nativisim
labor unions
graft
What does this image say about the control of Stand Oil?
Standard Oil is a monster trying to control the entire USA
Standard Oil is trying to save government from political bosses
Standard Oil is trying to keep government on the right track to benefit laborers
Stand Oil had control over many aspects of government
What does this image say about the need for labor unions?
labor unions were desirable because the workers were being crushed by difficult living conditions and poor pay.
Labor unions decreased nativism
Labor unions helped big business keep control of the workers
Labor unions helped reduce the length of the work day
How did the demographics change due to the economic developments of the late 1800's?
Increased number of people living in urban areas.
Decreased number of people living in urban areas.
Increased number of people living in rural areas.
Increased number of people living in Europe.
How did inventions and technology impact industry?
Decreased efficiency causing a decline in industry.
Increased efficiency causing growth in industry.
Increased the required number of laborers leading to a lack of jobs.
Decreased the amount of jobs available for immigrants.
Immigrants typically lived near others from their home country.
True
False
Immigrants were seen as a SOLUTION to violence, anarchy, and socialism that threatened capitalism in the United States.
True
False
What type of labor was problematic because it held down wages and hindered much of the general public from gaining a basic education?
Child Labor
Immigrant Labor
Women's Labor
Progressive Labor
Dangerous working conditions sometimes resulted in fatalities at workplaces.
True
False
Organized workers led ________ to push for better working conditions and higher wages.
Congress
Riots
Strikes
Political Parties
Which of the following was a POSITIVE impact of the Progressive movement?
Increased workplace fatalities.
Increased immigrant workers.
Increased government regulations of business.
Increased number of strikes, riots, protests, and unions.
Who worked tirelessly to win decent living and working conditions for the United Mine Workers, and participated in the Haymarket Day demonstration for the eight-hour day movement in Chicago in 1886?
Booker T. Washington
Mother Jones
Samuel Gompers
W.E.B. DuBois
