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Unit 1 Industrial Revolution

Total questions: 57

Worksheet time: 2hrs 37mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

New inventions made communication and transportation _____.

a)

faster

b)

slower

c)

no effect

2.

Thomas Edison invented the ____.

a)

refrigerated RR car

b)

telegraph

c)

telephone

d)

light bulb and electricity power plant

3.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the ____.

a)

refrigerated RR car

b)

telegraph

c)

telephone

d)

airplane

e)

Model T (assembly line car)

4.

Samuel Morse invented the ____.

a)

Model T (assembly line car)

b)

telegraph

c)

telephone

d)

light bulb and electricity power plant

e)

airplane

5.

Gustavus Swift invented the ____.

a)

refrigerated RR car

b)

airplane

c)

telephone

d)

light bulb and electricity power plant

6.

Orville and Wilber Wright invented the ____.

a)

refrigerated RR car

b)

airplane

c)

telephone

d)

light bulb and electricity power plant

7.

A ____ factor for urbanization (movement to cities from rural areas) was jobs.

a)

Push

b)

Pull

c)

Sweep

d)

Fear

8.

True or False: The assembly line created a large number of unskilled labor jobs in cities.

a)

True

b)

False

9.

True or False: An advantage of mass production (on an assembly line) is that there were interchangeable parts to fix products available.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Which of the following was NOT a disadvantage of urbanization?

a)

overcrowding

b)

sanitation issues

c)

jobs

11.

_____ was a leader in the banking and steel industries.

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Walker

c)

Carnegie

d)

Morgan

e)

Vanderbilt

12.

_____ was a leader in the RR and shipping industries.

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Walker

c)

Carnegie

d)

Morgan

e)

Vanderbilt

13.

_____ was a leader in the steel industry.

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Walker

c)

Carnegie

d)

Morgan

e)

Vanderbilt

14.

_____ was a leader in the oil industry.

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Walker

c)

Carnegie

d)

Morgan

e)

Vanderbilt

15.

_____ was a leader in the hair care product industry.

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Walker

c)

Carnegie

d)

Morgan

e)

Vanderbilt

16.

Growing your business by buying companies along your supply chain (like delivery, assembly, raw materials) is called ________ integration.

a)

vertical

b)

horizontal

c)

diagonal

17.

Taking over companies that are your competition in order to try to have a monopoly is called ____ integration.

a)

vertical

b)

horizontal

c)

diagonal

18.

True or False: Monopolists of the early 1900s were nicknamed Robber Barons because they had ethical business practices and treated their work force well.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

A ______ is one company that controls the whole industry.

a)

bi-opoly

b)

monopoly

c)

collective bargaining

d)

muckraker

20.

The _______ Act made monopolies illegal in the U.S., which is why there aren't any today.

a)

Labor Union

b)

Meat Inspection

c)

Sherman Anti-Trust

21.

Which of the following is the correct MLA citation format?

a)

first name then last name of author like Kim Carr

b)

date of publication written like September 1, 2023

c)

article title underlined/italicized

d)

hanging indent, double space, alphabetical order

22.

True or False: In a flow quote, there are a small amount of effective words in a quote with the majority of words being your words.

a)

True

b)

False

23.

Which of the following is NOT a goal of a labor union?

a)

ownership in the company

b)

higher wages

c)

safer work conditions

d)

shorter hours

e)

no child labor

24.

The ______ was a labor union that combined a lot of trade unions so that they had more power.

a)

AFL

b)

NAACP

c)

Knights of Labor

25.

True or False: Until laws were passed to protect laborers, the police and courts sided with companies if there was a disagreement.

a)

True

b)

False

26.

_____ was a muckraker that exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry.

a)

Sinclair

b)

Wells

c)

Tarbell

d)

Nast

27.

_____ was a muckraker that exposed the corruption of politicians like "Boss" Tweed.

a)

Sinclair

b)

Wells

c)

Tarbell

d)

Nast

28.

_____ was a muckraker that exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil monopoly.

a)

Sinclair

b)

Wells

c)

Tarbell

d)

Nast

29.

_____ was a muckraker that exposed civil rights violations.

a)

Sinclair

b)

Wells

c)

Tarbell

d)

Nast

30.

A _____ is someone who publishes exposés about corruption in order to make change.

a)

reporter

b)

cartoonist

c)

novelist

d)

muckraker

31.

A Progressive is a reformer. Which of the following would be considered a Progressive?

a)

Robber Baron

b)

labor union

c)

civil rights activist

d)

muckraker

e)

monopolist

32.

True or False: Plessy v Ferguson upheld segregation with the ruling that facilities could be "separate but equal."

a)

True

b)

False

33.

The late 1800's civil rights leader that believed in the "talented tenth" becoming leaders through an intellectual academic pursuit at university was ____.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

George Washington Carver

34.

This civil rights activist in the late 1800's was the President of Tuskeegee University and believed in vocational training for African-Americans, working to be the best within the current system.

a)

WEB DuBois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Ida B. Wells

d)

George Washington Carver

35.

Which two of the following were co-founders of the NAACP?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

d)

George Washington Carver

36.

Turner's thesis on the American _____ said that this is where the American character comes from.

a)

dream

b)

frontier

c)

horror story

d)

Revolution

37.

Which of the following PULLed settlers West?

a)

gold and silver

b)

free land (Homestead Act, 1862)

c)

less crowding

d)

ghost towns

e)

easier access with railroads

38.

True or False: Irish and Chinese immigrants mainly built the Transcontinental RR.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

Which of the following were settlers who took advantage of the Homestead Act?

a)

Sooners

b)

49ers

c)

Exodusters

40.

Which of the following are associated with cowboys?

a)

buffalo

b)

farms

c)

cattle

d)

cowtowns

e)

ranches

41.

True or False: Ranchers built barbed wire fences to keep their cattle from trampling the farmers' crops. They were good neighbors.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

True or False: The battle at Little Big Horn was the Sioux's greatest defeat.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

Which of the following were at the battle of Little Big Horn?

a)

Custer

b)

Crazy Horse

c)

Chief Joseph

44.

Which of the following is famous for saying, "I will fight no more forever" ?

a)

Custer

b)

Sitting Bull

c)

Crazy Horse

d)

Chief Joseph

45.

Forcing native children to attend boarding schools were an attempt to stamp out their ___.

a)

history

b)

youth

c)

farming skills

d)

culture

46.

Native American boarding schools stamped out their culture by ___.

a)

cutting their hair

b)

giving them English names

c)

forcing them to speak another tribal language

d)

forcing them to practice Christianity

47.

True/False: The Nez Perce and Sioux tribes were examples of conflicts caused when natives' reservation treaties being "renegotiated" to move them to other lands when gold and other valuables were found on the current reservation lands.

a)

True

b)

False

48.

Native Americans were moved to ____ so that the land could be settled by American farmers.

a)

reservations

b)

urban cities

c)

useless land no one wanted

d)

factories

e)

another country

49.

True or False: The Dawes Act broke up tribal reservations into individual lots, like the Homestead Act.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

What is the topic of this cartoon?

a)

immigration

b)

urbanization

c)

transcontinental railroad

d)

railroad monopoly

51.

Which of the following is a symbol in the cartoon that represents the completion of the Transcontinental RR?

a)

the tracks

b)

the steam engines

c)

the men waving their hats in celebration

d)

the handshake

52.

Which train represents the Central Pacific Railroad that hired mostly Chinese immigrants?

a)

train on left

b)

train on right

53.

What is the message of the cartoon?

a)

The settlers were excited about the completion of the Transcontinental RR, but the natives were not.

b)

The natives continued to attack the settlers on the train.

c)

The train purposely killed the bison, a staple of life for the natives.

d)

Many immigrants were injured while working on the railraod.

54.

Which of the following was an effect of urbanization?

a)

jobs

b)

overcrowding

c)

sanitation/health concerns

55.

Which of the following was a cause of urbanization?

a)

unskilled factory jobs

b)

overcrowding

c)

sanitation/health concerns

d)

adventure on the frontier

56.

Which of the following shows the correct chronological order (1st event on top)?

a)

Wounded Knee

Battle of Little Big Horn

b)

The Jungle published

Meat Inspection Act

c)

Model T produced

assembly lines created

d)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed

Standard Oil monopoly formed

57.

Which of the following inventions helped business grow through communication and transportation advancement?

a)

telegraph and telephone

b)

steel industry

c)

railroads

d)

hair products

e)

banking