WorksheetsIndustrialization & Immig.2025 January US History Semester Exam
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Rapid industrialization in the United States in the late 1800s led to a rise in big business and powerful monopolies. These big businesses bought stock in other companies and formed these powerful agreements.
a)
Industrialized Capitalism
b)
Laissez-faire
c)
Labor Unions
d)
trusts
2.
Organized groups of workers created in order to improve conditions in the workplace
a)
Industrialized Capitalism
b)
Laissez-faire
c)
Labor Unions
d)
trusts
3.
Term used to describe the government's lack of regulation of big business and the economy in the late 1800s
a)
Industrialized Capitalism
b)
Laissez-faire
c)
Labor Unions
d)
trusts
4.
Term that refers to one person or company that controls an entire industry.
a)
laissez-faire
b)
assimilation
c)
monopoly
d)
urbanization
5.
Which term refers to concept of survival of the fittest in the business world; associated with Robber Barons?
a)
Social Darwinism
b)
strike
c)
Horizontal Integration
d)
Vertical Integration
e)
John Rockefeller
6.
Which term refers to the practice where a single company controls the entire process of producing a product, from the raw materials to distribution?
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
strike
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Horizontal Integration
e)
John Rockefeller
7.
Which term refers to the refusal to work in order to force an employer to meet certain demands; tactic used by labor unions?
a)
strike
b)
Social Darwinism
c)
Horizontal Integration
d)
Vertical Integration
e)
John Rockefeller
8.
Who was a Scottish-born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892; used vertical integration?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
strike
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Horizontal Integration
e)
Vertical Integration
9.
Who established the Standard Oil Company; known as a Robber Baron for using unethical tactics to control competition; used horizontal integration?
a)
John Rockefeller
b)
strike
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Horizontal Integration
e)
Vertical Integration
10.
Who was known for dominating the railroad and shipping industries in the late 1800s? Had many characteristics of a Robber Baron?
a)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
b)
strike
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Horizontal Integration
e)
Vertical Integration
11.
Type of monopoly strategy where a company buys out all of its competition. Ex. Rockefeller's Standard Oil
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
strike
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Vertical Integration
e)
John Rockefeller
12.
The rapid growth of cities is called
a)
urbanization
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
e)
Nativism
13.
Which term refers to an 1882 law that prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers?
a)
Chinese Exclusion Act
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Nativism
e)
Tenement
14.
Which term refers to the Immigration processing center that opened in New York Harbor in 1892; for European immigrants?
a)
Ellis Island
b)
Angel Island
c)
Chinese Exclusion Act
d)
Nativism
e)
Tenement
15.
Which term refers a policy of favoring native-born individuals over immigrants; resulted in 1920s events such as immigration laws and quotas, the resurgence of the KKK, and the Red Scare?
a)
Nativism
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
e)
Tenement
16.
Which term refers to a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety?
a)
Tenement
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
e)
Nativism
17.
Leader of the American Federation of Labor, one of the most successful labor unions in the late 1800s?
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Angel Island
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
e)
Nativism
18.
Which term refers to the Immigration station for immigrants arriving on the West Coast in San Francisco; Asian immigrants?
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Chinese Exclusion Act
d)
Nativism
e)
Tenement
19.
Which of the following industrialists is most associated with using horizontal integration to build his business?
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Carnegie
c)
JP Morgan
d)
Richard Warren Sears
20.
What is the term for the belief that only the strongest businesses will survive in a competitive market, often used to justify the practices of industrialists?
a)
John Rockefeller
b)
Horizontal Integration
c)
Social Darwinism
d)
Vertical Integration
e)
strike
21.
Which term refers to the economic policy of minimal government interference in the business sector, allowing for free market competition?
a)
Laissez-faire
b)
Labor Unions
c)
Industrialized Capitalism
d)
trusts
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