WorksheetsTopic 1 Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What point of view about these leaders does this cartoon express?
A political cartoon depicts industrialists relaxing on a pile of profits and products that are crushing workers.
A political cartoon depicts industrialists being crushed by workers.
A political cartoon depicts industrialists and workers going out to sea.
None of the above
What is the subject of this cartoon?
monopolists and the Senate
Standard Oil and the Senate
what the President's chamber looks like
how senators treat voters
What message is the cartoonist sending by portraying the monopolists as larger in size than the senators?
The monopolists work harder.
The monopolists voice the concerns of the people more effectively.
The monopolists represent the majority of the population.
The monopolists have more power to influence the government.
Which of the following inventions did not have an impact during 1865-1914?
Telephone
Light Bulb
Bessemer Process
Commercial Airplanes
Analyze the chart. What are some reasons why workers might complain about Pullman, Illinois?
Rent cost 13% more of the workers wages than in other towns.
Workers could not own their own homes.
Workers were subjected to home inspections.
Pullman did not allow for religious diversity.
All of the Above
What is the best definition for "The Gilded Age"?
Late 1500s American middle-class citizens who adopted the lifestyles and attitudes of the era.
Late 1600s American middle-class citizens who adopted the lifestyles and attitudes of the era
Late 1700s American middle-class citizens who adopted the lifestyles and attitudes of the era
Late 1800s American middle-class citizens who adopted the lifestyles and attitudes of the era
What media industry had an impact on the "Gilded Age" that helped create mass culture?
Television
Newspapers
Telegraph
Magazines
Between 1860 and 1900, a primary cause of migration from rural to urban areas was:
inflationary pressure on crop prices.
lack of rural housing as building slowed.
increasing economic opportunity in cities
government resettlement policies.
"Go into any of the 'respectable' tenement neighborhoods . . . you shall come away agreeing [that] . . . life there does not seem worth living . . . [T]he airshaft . . . seems always so busy letting out foul stenches . . . that it has no time to earn its name by bringing down fresh air."
-Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Based on this quote and the title of his book, why do you think Riis wrote what he did?
to pressure public officials to tear down tenements in cities
to encourage public discussion of poverty in cities
to call attention to increasing criminal activity and violence in cities
to pressure further migration to cities from rural areas
Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?
steel beams
the telephone
electricity
typewriter
What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
fire safety standards
cheap electric power
mass transit
new methods of making steel
What were the goals of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Focused on issues like wages, working hours, and working conditions
Devoted to broad change such as replacing capitalism with workers' cooperatives
Focused on violence to get change
To be the only Union in the U.S.
The main immigration processing station in New York City was called
Hull House.
Angel Island.
Tammany Hall.
Ellis Island.
The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to
decrease Chinese immigration.
settle a disagreement between China and the United States.
stop Chinese Americans from attending school in the United States.
create segregated classrooms.
The main goal of the Americanization movement was to
encourage people to move from the country to the city.
incorporate immigrants of various cultures into American culture.
limit the number of immigrants entering the country.
improve the living conditions in America's largest cities.
Settlement houses were founded in the late 1800s by
political machines.
industrial workers.
social reformers/Volunteers.
new immigrants.
What is horizontal integration?
A system of consolidating many firms into one
Selling your business
When you have multiple investors in your business
Be able to rent out businesses
Which of these practices is most closely associated with the growth of labor unions?
price fixing
protective tariffs
collective bargaining
vertical integration
Which of the following represents a benefit of the United States government’s laissez-faire policies toward business during the late 1800s?
Strong government regulation spurred the rise of entrepreneurship
Minimal government regulation encouraged investment and growth
Strong government regulation increased wages for unskilled workers.
Minimal government regulation encouraged Congress to ban protective tariffs.
According to the information on this map, if a train station in Sacramento’s clock reads 9:00, it would be 12:00 at a train station in
Fargo
Las Vegas
Memphis
Washington D.C.
“When Rockefeller founded Standard Oil, kerosene was 30 cents a gallon. Twenty years later, Rockefeller had almost a 90 percent market share and kerosene was only eight cents a gallon. Customers were the real winners here, because Rockefeller’s size allowed him to cut costs. . . .”
-Historian Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
Folsom would be most likely to call John D. Rockefeller a:
Carpetbagger
Robber Baron
Philanthropist
Captain of Industry
How did the U.S. government encourage American industry in the late nineteenth century?
By enforcing the Fourteenth Amendment
By enacting protective tariffs
By going to war with economic rivals
By passing laws to protect workers
In the nineteenth century, tenements such as this were examples of
Demographic shifts from urban to rural areas.
How foreign policies affected economic issues in cities.
Increasing sanitation in big cities
The social issues affecting urbanization.
What is the name of the term used to describe people that have a strong dislike for immigrants and prefer native-born people
Nativism
Assimilation
Robber Baron
Urbanization
What was a normal experience of factory life for American workers in the late 1800s?
Could work up to 12 hours a day
May work up to 6 days out of the week.
Worked in small, hot, dark, and dirty factories
Were paid very low wages
All of the above
