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WorksheetsUnit 2 Reassessment Review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 26mins
Which of the following hindered labor unions in their efforts to raise wages?
Presidents & Governors using the military
Political Bosses using gangs
Settlement houses using immigrants
Social Gospel using religion
What was the main impact of political machines like Tammany Hall on city government and civil society?
Widespread corruption
Providing essential services
Encouraging good government
Promoting civil society
What idea did Robber Barons use to justify the poor working conditions of their employees?
Dawes Act
Social Darwinism
Social Gospel
Urbanization
What did Nativists believe?
Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.
White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.
Immigrants stole jobs from native born Americans.
All of the above.
Machines and assembly lines meant that it took more ________ workers to produce goods.
Skilled
Unskilled
Union
Built to help poor immigrants adjust to American society.
Textile Factories
Settlement houses
How did political machines get the support of immigrants?
they promised to stop illegal immigration from Latin America
They wasted money on military spending
They helped them find homes and jobs in exchange for votes
They developed a system to make becoming a citizen easier
Laissez-faire
belief that the government should have very little involvement in economics
belief that the government should direct the economy
belief that the economy does not matter or is not important
belief that the economy should be determined by employees only
Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the
mid-nineteenth century?
People moved from rural areas to urban areas in search of economic opportunity.
Farmers began to cultivate land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Native peoples were forcibly relocated to western territories.
Government officials began to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny.
During the Gilded Age there was an increase in ____________________ and ___________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.
Work and Infrastructure
Corruption and Laissez-Faire
Urbanization and Immigration
Monopolies and Political Bosses
The New Immigrants had an easy time assimilating into American life.
True
False
The Federal Government often intervened in strikes on behalf of
Big Businesses
Labor Unions
What was the HOMESTEAD STRIKE?
A Progressive Era meeting with voting right pioneers.
Violent labor dispute between Carnegie Steel and its workers.
A bunch of homesteaders in the midwest of USA.
A strike about lemonade.
settlement house
a house for settlers to live in while they are building their own home
a development of houses that serves as a community
an area of poverty that is a problem
a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services
What was the main reason children were hired to work during the Industrial revolution?
They were small.
They could be paid less.
They were more responsive to authority than adults were.
all of the above
Who made their fortune refining oil; founded Standard Oil?
Samuel Gompers
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
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
The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?
Rural areas to Urban areas
Urban areas to Rural areas
A company that wipes out its competitors and is the only one in its industry is an example of what?
Monopoly
Business Management
Trust
Corporation
Which of the following was NOT true of poor urban neighborhoods?
They were filled with overcrowded tenements.
The living conditions were dirty and squalid.
Most urbanites lived in factory-owned apartments.
The incidence of diseases was increasing.
