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Gilded Age and the Industrial Revolution
Gilded Age and the Industrial Revolution
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United States History- Pearson/Prentice Hill Textbook
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Settlement houses during the late 1800s offered solutions to poor city dwellers through:
social services
provided a basic income
Protection from the power of political machines
protection from area crime
2
American Industrial growth of the late 1800s was made possible by
Government reforms
The household economy
The development of labor unions
Technological advances
3
Inventor of the light bulb
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Kanye West
4
During the late 1800s the US became an urban nation. 1 of the reasons for this transformation:
Many farm workers had not started joining and org. unions
Immigrants were unwilling to do farm labor
Farm life became extinct
Farm machinery & factory production decrease farm labor need
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The production of goods and services in large numbers using machinery and assembly lines
Mass Production
Sweatshops
Assembly Lines
Factories
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Trust
Belief in a big business
Group of companies placed under the control of a one company
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Employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages & working conditions
Socialism
Employee Strikes
Collective Bargining
Labor Unions
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All of these were progressive goals except:
Social Welfare
Downsizing Government
Economic Reform
Reforming Government
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The 1st federal agency monitoring business operations to oversee interstate railroad procedures
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Social Darwinism
Knights of Labor
10
Journalists known as "muckrakers" worked at:
Exposing political and business corruption
Attacking the ideas of socialists
Praising government policies
Opposing government regulation of business
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John D. Rockefeller
Oil tycoon (vertical integration)
Oil tycoon (horizontal integration)
Steel tycoon (vertical integration)
Steel tycoon (horizontal integration)
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Which Amendment made alcohol illegal?
17th
20th
19th
18th
13
Which of these inventions caused the development of time zones?
Streetcars
Trolleys
Railroads
Steamships
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Bessemer Process
He was a steel worker who created the 1st steel labor union
He invented steel and received the first patent ever issued
Method developed for making cotton textile more efficiently
Method developed in mid-1800s for making steel efficiently
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Belief that certain nations and races were superior and destined to rule over others
Socialism
Kanye West Methodology
Darwinistic Thinking
Social Darwinism
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Which city was known as the "golden door" for the number of immigrants that entered this port?
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New York
San Francisco
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Why did political machines gain immense power in the late 1800s?
They did not accept graft as part of their income
They provided jobs and assistance to many immigrants
They were honest and attracted support
The demanded many needed political reforms
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Small factory where employees have to work long hours under poor conditions for little pay
Workshop
Factory
Sweatshop
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Which Amendment allowed all women to vote?
20th
17th
18th
19th
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1890 law banning any trust that restrained interstate trade or commerce
Socialists For Trade and Commerce
Sherman Trust Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Socialists Against Trusts
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The Gospel of Wealth promotes:
Citizenship
developing monopolies
Social Darwinism
Gov't regulation of business
22
Any of the 24 longitudinal areas of the world within which the same time is used.
Time Warp
Space Time Continuum
Time Lines
Time Zones
23
During the Inds. Revolution critics called the powerful industrialist leaders:
Anarchists
Philanthropists
Captains of Industry
Robber Barons
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System where the means of production are publicly controlled and regulated
Communism
Social Communism
Social Darwinism
Socialism
25
Andrew Carnegie
Steel tycoon (vertical integration)
Oil tycoon (horizontal integration)
Steel tycoon (horizontal integration)
Oil tycoon (vertical integration)