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Unit 2 Reassessment Review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 26mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following hindered labor unions in their efforts to raise wages?

a)

Presidents & Governors using the military

b)

Political Bosses using gangs

c)

Settlement houses using immigrants

d)

Social Gospel using religion

2.
Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act 
b)
Homestead Act
c)
Sherman AntiTrust Act
d)
Dawes Act
3.

What was the main impact of political machines like Tammany Hall on city government and civil society?

a)

Widespread corruption

b)

Providing essential services

c)

Encouraging good government

d)

Promoting civil society

4.

What idea did Robber Barons use to justify the poor working conditions of their employees?

a)

Dawes Act

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Social Gospel

d)

Urbanization

5.

What did Nativists believe?

a)

Immigrants threatened the American way of Life and Democracy.

b)

White Protestants were superior to other immigrant groups.

c)

Immigrants stole jobs from native born Americans.

d)

All of the above.

6.

Machines and assembly lines meant that it took more ________ workers to produce goods.

a)

Skilled

b)

Unskilled

c)

Union

7.

Built to help poor immigrants adjust to American society.

a)

Textile Factories

b)
Reform Darwinism
c)

Settlement houses

8.

How did political machines get the support of immigrants?

a)

they promised to stop illegal immigration from Latin America

b)

They wasted money on military spending

c)

They helped them find homes and jobs in exchange for votes

d)

They developed a system to make becoming a citizen easier

9.

Laissez-faire

a)

belief that the government should have very little involvement in economics

b)

belief that the government should direct the economy

c)

belief that the economy does not matter or is not important

d)

belief that the economy should be determined by employees only

10.

Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the

mid-nineteenth century?

a)

People moved from rural areas to urban areas in search of economic opportunity.

b)

Farmers began to cultivate land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

c)

Native peoples were forcibly relocated to western territories.

d)

Government officials began to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny.

11.

During the Gilded Age there was an increase in ____________________ and ___________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

a)

Work and Infrastructure

b)

Corruption and Laissez-Faire

c)

Urbanization and Immigration

d)

Monopolies and Political Bosses

12.

The New Immigrants had an easy time assimilating into American life.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

The Federal Government often intervened in strikes on behalf of

a)

Big Businesses

b)

Labor Unions

14.

What was the HOMESTEAD STRIKE?

a)

A Progressive Era meeting with voting right pioneers.

b)

Violent labor dispute between Carnegie Steel and its workers.

c)

A bunch of homesteaders in the midwest of USA.

d)

A strike about lemonade.

15.

settlement house

a)

a house for settlers to live in while they are building their own home

b)

a development of houses that serves as a community

c)

an area of poverty that is a problem

d)

a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services

16.

What was the main reason children were hired to work during the Industrial revolution?

a)

They were small.

b)

They could be paid less.

c)

They were more responsive to authority than adults were.

d)

all of the above

17.

Who made their fortune refining oil; founded Standard Oil?

a)

Samuel Gompers

b)

John D. Rockefeller

c)

Andrew Carnegie

d)

JP Morgan

18.

Why does this image depict Rockefeller so large?

a)

He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors

b)

He was a government inspector looking for corruption

c)

He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government

d)

He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization

19.

The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?

a)

Rural areas to Urban areas

b)

Urban areas to Rural areas

20.

A company that wipes out its competitors and is the only one in its industry is an example of what? 

a)

Monopoly

b)

Business Management

c)

Trust

d)

Corporation

21.

Which of the following was NOT true of poor urban neighborhoods?

a)

They were filled with overcrowded tenements.

b)

The living conditions were dirty and squalid.

c)

Most urbanites lived in factory-owned apartments.

d)

The incidence of diseases was increasing.