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Industrialization in the Gilded Age
Industrialization in the Gilded Age
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A quiz to assess student understanding of #industrialization and its effects during the #Gilded Age.
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1
Which inventor is INCORRECTLY matched with his invention?
Thomas Edison - telephone
Orville and Wilbur Wright - airplaine
Elias Howe - sewing machine
Christopher Sholes - typewriter
2
Free Enterprise depends upon
philanthropy
competition
advertising
stocks
3
How did the development of corporations lead to more businesses in America in the late 1800s?
Many people could pool money.
Encouragement of philanthropy
Reduced risk for investors
Profits are guaranteed
4
What were labor (union) leaders blamed for in the Haymarket Affair in 1886?
a bomb
higher prices
unemployment
unsafe workplaces
5
What made the production of steel more economical?
Petroleum
Bessemer Process
Interstate Commerce Act
Electricity
6
What increased as a result of the inventions of the late 1800s?
national debt of the US
economic depressions
Americans' standard of living
junkyards
7
In the Gilded Age, most Americans believed in the need for
laissez-faire
higher pay for workers
better working conditions
monopolies
8
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was created to stop ....
depression
monopolies
entrepreneurs
interstate commerce
9
Which of the following does NOT describe working conditions in the Gilded Age?
6 day work weeks
repetitive and boring
more skill required
10-14 hour days
10
How many workers were involved in strikes between 1880 and 1900?
6 million workers in 20,000 strikes
10,000 workers in less than 100 strikes
200,000 workers in over 1,000 strikes
500,000 workers in 500 strikes
11
How many American children under age 15 worked outside the home in 1910?
50%
10%
5%
20%
12
The late 1800s saw new methods of selling such as ....
all of these
chain stores
department stores
mail-order stores
13
A worker injured on the job during the Gilded Age might expect
to be fired
workmen's compensation
his family to be taken care of
5 paid sick days
14
Which of the following is NOT true of Big Business?
more efficient, leading to lower prices
produce goods in large quantities
guaranteed workers' rights
unfair influence over government
15
Which of the following does NOT describe Andrew Carnegie?
oil tycoon
robber baron
entrepreneur
philanthropist
16
Between 1850 and 1950 the population of the US tripled due to
improved living conditions
fewer childhood diseases
high birthrates and immigration
safety laws in the workplace
17
Which of the following is true of the American Federation of Labor?
Samuel Gompers was their leader.
They allowed skilled and unskilled workers to join.
They fought for equal pay for women.
They opposed child labor.
18
Electricity was first used commercially for ....
telegraph and telephone
Transcontinental Railroad
textile mills
streetcars and subways
19
The Transcontinental Railroad was necessary for the development of a ....
laissez-faire
Gospel of Wealth
national market
corporation
20
Who provided much of the labor for the Transcontinental Railroad?
strikebreakers called scabs
skilled Pullman workers
the Chinese and the Irish
Mexicans and poor New Yorkers
21
Which of the following is NOT true of the union known as the Knights of Labor?
They only allowed skilled workers to join.
Terence Powderly was their leader.
They grew rapidly in the 1880s.
They demanded an 8 hour day, higher wages and safety codes.
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Railroads sometimes charged higher rates for shorter routes, leading to the passage of the
Pacific Railway Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Free Enterprise Act
Interstate Commerce Act
