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WorksheetsUSHIST Unit 6
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 30mins
The growing number of factories, machines, and urban areas in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s relates mostly to
The Civil War
Industrialization
Reconstruction
John Rockefeller founded
The Standard Oil Company
The Labor Laws Movement
Carnegie Steel Company
Steel and oil companies grew because of the expansion of
Airplane Travel
Mail Carriers
Railroads
When a single company controls all of the production and distribution of a product it’s called a
Bank
Monopoly
Trust
Who owned the first billion dollar corporation in the United States?
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Upton Sinclair
Which invention received coded messages across electric wires connecting long distances?
Telegraph
Telephone
Electric Light Bulb
Most of the new immigrants in the United States took jobs in
Retail Stores
Healthcare
Manufacturing
This invention allowed for voice to voice instant communication.
Telegraph
Telephone
Electric Light Bulb
Low wages, long workdays, and bad working conditions led to the formation of
Labor Unions
Corporations
Inventions
A transcontinental railroad made life out west possible by allowing farmers, ranchers, and other settlers’ access to __________________ markets and resources.
Northern
Southern
Eastern
This invention allowed factories to be lit and operate twenty-four hours a day.
Telegraph
Telephone
Electric Light Bulb
The steel plow, barbed wire, and mechanical reaper were inventions that made ___________ possible in the West.
Farming
Construction
Immigration
The conflict and massacre that occurred between Plains indians and United States Army is known as
Wounded Knee
Appomattox
Sioux Conflict
Progress towards better conditions in government and society is known as
Industrialization
Innovation
Progressivism
Journalists that investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, and other social issues were called
Monopolies
Muckrakers
Corporations
The Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act were created because of the book “The Jungle” written by
John Rockefeller
Upton Sinclair
Teddy Roosevelt
Ida Tarbell wrote a book exposing the
Carnegie Steel Company
Railroad Workers
Standard Oil Company
set of laws established in the South and resulted in inferior education, health care, and transportation systems for African Americans.
Jim Crow Laws
NAACP Laws
Progressive Laws
W.E.B. DuBois founded the
Standard Oil Company
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Hull House
The _________ movement helped save millions of acres of wilderness land and created the national park system.
Industrial
Roosevelt
Conservation
