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WorksheetsUnit 1 Industrial Revolution
Total questions: 57
Worksheet time: 2hrs 37mins
New inventions made communication and transportation _____.
faster
slower
no effect
Thomas Edison invented the ____.
refrigerated RR car
telegraph
telephone
light bulb and electricity power plant
Alexander Graham Bell invented the ____.
refrigerated RR car
telegraph
telephone
airplane
Model T (assembly line car)
Samuel Morse invented the ____.
Model T (assembly line car)
telegraph
telephone
light bulb and electricity power plant
airplane
Gustavus Swift invented the ____.
refrigerated RR car
airplane
telephone
light bulb and electricity power plant
Orville and Wilber Wright invented the ____.
refrigerated RR car
airplane
telephone
light bulb and electricity power plant
A ____ factor for urbanization (movement to cities from rural areas) was jobs.
Push
Pull
Sweep
Fear
True or False: The assembly line created a large number of unskilled labor jobs in cities.
True
False
True or False: An advantage of mass production (on an assembly line) is that there were interchangeable parts to fix products available.
True
False
Which of the following was NOT a disadvantage of urbanization?
overcrowding
sanitation issues
jobs
_____ was a leader in the banking and steel industries.
Rockefeller
Walker
Carnegie
Morgan
Vanderbilt
_____ was a leader in the RR and shipping industries.
Rockefeller
Walker
Carnegie
Morgan
Vanderbilt
_____ was a leader in the steel industry.
Rockefeller
Walker
Carnegie
Morgan
Vanderbilt
_____ was a leader in the oil industry.
Rockefeller
Walker
Carnegie
Morgan
Vanderbilt
_____ was a leader in the hair care product industry.
Rockefeller
Walker
Carnegie
Morgan
Vanderbilt
Growing your business by buying companies along your supply chain (like delivery, assembly, raw materials) is called ________ integration.
vertical
horizontal
diagonal
Taking over companies that are your competition in order to try to have a monopoly is called ____ integration.
vertical
horizontal
diagonal
True or False: Monopolists of the early 1900s were nicknamed Robber Barons because they had ethical business practices and treated their work force well.
True
False
A ______ is one company that controls the whole industry.
bi-opoly
monopoly
collective bargaining
muckraker
The _______ Act made monopolies illegal in the U.S., which is why there aren't any today.
Labor Union
Meat Inspection
Sherman Anti-Trust
Which of the following is the correct MLA citation format?
first name then last name of author like Kim Carr
date of publication written like September 1, 2023
article title underlined/italicized
hanging indent, double space, alphabetical order
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.
True
False
Which of the following is NOT a goal of a labor union?
ownership in the company
higher wages
safer work conditions
shorter hours
no child labor
The ______ was a labor union that combined a lot of trade unions so that they had more power.
AFL
NAACP
Knights of Labor
True or False: Until laws were passed to protect laborers, the police and courts sided with companies if there was a disagreement.
True
False
_____ was a muckraker that exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry.
Sinclair
Wells
Tarbell
Nast
_____ was a muckraker that exposed the corruption of politicians like "Boss" Tweed.
Sinclair
Wells
Tarbell
Nast
_____ was a muckraker that exposed the corruption of the Standard Oil monopoly.
Sinclair
Wells
Tarbell
Nast
_____ was a muckraker that exposed civil rights violations.
Sinclair
Wells
Tarbell
Nast
A _____ is someone who publishes exposés about corruption in order to make change.
reporter
cartoonist
novelist
muckraker
A Progressive is a reformer. Which of the following would be considered a Progressive?
Robber Baron
labor union
civil rights activist
muckraker
monopolist
True or False: Plessy v Ferguson upheld segregation with the ruling that facilities could be "separate but equal."
True
False
The late 1800's civil rights leader that believed in the "talented tenth" becoming leaders through an intellectual academic pursuit at university was ____.
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
George Washington Carver
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.
WEB DuBois
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
George Washington Carver
Which two of the following were co-founders of the NAACP?
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. DuBois
George Washington Carver
Turner's thesis on the American _____ said that this is where the American character comes from.
dream
frontier
horror story
Revolution
Which of the following PULLed settlers West?
gold and silver
free land (Homestead Act, 1862)
less crowding
ghost towns
easier access with railroads
True or False: Irish and Chinese immigrants mainly built the Transcontinental RR.
True
False
Which of the following were settlers who took advantage of the Homestead Act?
Sooners
49ers
Exodusters
Which of the following are associated with cowboys?
buffalo
farms
cattle
cowtowns
ranches
True or False: Ranchers built barbed wire fences to keep their cattle from trampling the farmers' crops. They were good neighbors.
True
False
True or False: The battle at Little Big Horn was the Sioux's greatest defeat.
True
False
Which of the following were at the battle of Little Big Horn?
Custer
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
Which of the following is famous for saying, "I will fight no more forever" ?
Custer
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Chief Joseph
Forcing native children to attend boarding schools were an attempt to stamp out their ___.
history
youth
farming skills
culture
Native American boarding schools stamped out their culture by ___.
cutting their hair
giving them English names
forcing them to speak another tribal language
forcing them to practice Christianity
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.
True
False
Native Americans were moved to ____ so that the land could be settled by American farmers.
reservations
urban cities
useless land no one wanted
factories
another country
True or False: The Dawes Act broke up tribal reservations into individual lots, like the Homestead Act.
True
False
What is the topic of this cartoon?
immigration
urbanization
transcontinental railroad
railroad monopoly
Which of the following is a symbol in the cartoon that represents the completion of the Transcontinental RR?
the tracks
the steam engines
the men waving their hats in celebration
the handshake
Which train represents the Central Pacific Railroad that hired mostly Chinese immigrants?
train on left
train on right
What is the message of the cartoon?
The settlers were excited about the completion of the Transcontinental RR, but the natives were not.
The natives continued to attack the settlers on the train.
The train purposely killed the bison, a staple of life for the natives.
Many immigrants were injured while working on the railraod.
Which of the following was an effect of urbanization?
jobs
overcrowding
sanitation/health concerns
Which of the following was a cause of urbanization?
unskilled factory jobs
overcrowding
sanitation/health concerns
adventure on the frontier
Which of the following shows the correct chronological order (1st event on top)?
Wounded Knee
Battle of Little Big Horn
The Jungle published
Meat Inspection Act
Model T produced
assembly lines created
Sherman Anti-Trust Act passed
Standard Oil monopoly formed
Which of the following inventions helped business grow through communication and transportation advancement?
telegraph and telephone
steel industry
railroads
hair products
banking
