2023 SS 8 Final Exam Review

Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought ______.

The Bessemer Process made steel production quicker and cheaper, which created a booming railroad industry.

Andrew Carnegie dealt with striking union workers at this Pennsylvania steel factory in 1892 by _____.

In the fight against discrimination, Ida B. Wells drew attention to the lynching of African Americans.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other accidents led to the passage of laws improving factory safety.

Sinclair Lewis became the first American to receive the ___ in literature.

The "New Women" emerged, and women began to challenge the social view of a woman.

Of the following, which was an effect of the expansion of railroads across the United States?

Terence V. Powderly became leader of the Knights of Labor in 1879.

Workers' compensation laws prohibited companies from paying wages to employees injured on the job.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other accidents led to the passage of laws improving factory safety.

Samuel Gompers led the American Federation of Labor.

Progressive reforms improved education for medical professionals.

The period of African American artistic accomplishment in the 1920s was known as the ____.

School attendance decreased in the 20s.

Wilbur and Orville Wright built a lightweight airplane that ran on a gas-powered engine.

When the US entered WWI, men left their jobs and women filled them.

John D. Rockefeller's control of about 90 percent of the oil refining business is an example of horizontal integration.

The 20s became a time of the female declaration of independence.

In the 1920s, __ allowed people all of the country to listen to the same programs.

The Homestead Strike was a protest _______.

Collective bargaining is the _______.

New York City was the world's largest black urban community in the 20s.

The Jazz Singer was the first __, or motion picture with sound.

The invention of the airplane led to increased demand for __________.

Stockholders own a corporation, but they do not make its day-to-day business decisions.

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interest of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called ______.

Andrew Carnegie owned businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process in the steel industry.

The Sherman Antitrust Act made it illegal to create monopolies.

A majority of women earned more money than man in the same job.

Politicians best confronted corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age by _____.

Who encouraged African Americans to improve their opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly?

The Knights of Labor was the first national labor union.

New technologies in the steel industry in the late 1800s increased productivity in the ________.

To help the conservation movement, Roosevelt signed a bill requiring manufacturers to limit the use of fossil fuels.

How did the labor force change during the Second Industrial Revolution?

In its first decade, the __ brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight for equal voting rights.

___ was a famous writer who produced poems, plays, and novels about African American life.

The "lost generation" writers were critical of democracy, prosperity, and peace after WWI and ridiculed Americans.

____ founded the National Woman's Party (NWP).

The Harlem Renaissance led to economic prosperity, new ideas, personal freedoms and developments in the fine arts.

Henry Ford made manufacturing more efficient with the moving assembly line.

A major aim of the Society of American Indians was to preserve Native Americans' traditional culture.

___ was a trumpet player known for his method of stepping out from the band to perform a solo.

Social Darwinism is the idea that those who were "fittest" would be successful.

Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as _____.

____'s novel The Great Gatsby focused on a loss of morality behind the fun and free-spirited times of the Jazz Age.

Which of the following was an effect of factory specialization in the late 1800s?

Reformers called for an end to __, giving government jobs to supporters after a candidate wins an election.

At a protest in Chicago's Haymarket Square, a bomb killed eight police officers and injured many others.

Writers who criticized American society in the 1920s became known as ___.

Thomas Edison was the inventor of the light bulb.

Many women made it to managerial positions.

Which of these reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that government had proposed or passed?

In Paris, in the 1920s, there was a community of American ___, or people who leave their country to live elsewhere.

Federick W. Taylor encouraged managers to view workers as interchangeable parts of the production process.

The unions claimed that __ was unfair because it caused managers to consider profits more than safe working conditions.

An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade the nickname the ___.

Child labor continued even after the reforms of the early 1900s because _______.

William Howard Taft's main criticism of Theodore Roosevelt was he ____.

City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called _______.

This person's reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely.

A procedure called an initiative allows voters to propose new laws by using petitions.

How did the telegraph differ from the telephone?

The ___ helped expand voting rights by allowing voters, and not state legislatures, to elect senators.

What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?