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Chapters 3 and 4
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1
Credit Mobilier was a scam to overcharge the government on RR construction
True
False
2
Which did
not
lead to an increase in immigration to the US?
The Homestead Act
Potato famine in Ireland
WWI
Gold discovered in California
3
The first and largest trust
Union Pacific RR
Carnegie Steel
Standard Oil
Chevron
4
After 1880, immigrants to the US settled in the North rather than in the South because
The South had already industrialized
All of these
They competed with slaves for jobs in the South
Jobs were more plentiful in the North
5
To improve the quality of available housing, city leaders began to regulate new construction
False
True
6
In
Munn v. Illinois,
the Supreme Court ruled that
States did not have the right to regulate RRs
States had the right to regulate RRs
Only the federal government could regulate rates
7
Before 1890, most immigrants came from
Southern Europe
North & western Europe
Eastern Europe
Russia
8
Greater flexibility of location caused industries to grow as never before
False
True
9
Which is
NOT
correctly matched?
Colonel Waring & Crime
Christopher Sholes & Typewriter
Jacob Riis & Poverty
Edison & Electricity
10
Who developed mug shots to track criminals?
Lt. Robert VanPelt
Colonel George Waring
Detective Thomas Burns
Major Lewis Latimer
11
People who admired the wealthy industrialists such as Rockefeller, referred to them as
Robber Barons
White ducks
Captains of Industry
Role models
12
Forms of government intervention that helped rapid industrialization include
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Minimum wage laws
Protective tariffs and land grants
Horizontal consolidation
13
According to Andrew Carnegie's book "Gospel of Wealth,”
Poor people were lazy
The wealthy should use their wealth to improve society
Only wealthy people should vote
The government should stay out of business
14
One way the government helped promote industrialization
Tariffs on imports
High interest rate loans
Encouraging labor to form unions
Higher taxes
15
Which of the following explains why the South industrialized more slowly than the North?
Southerns are not as smart as Northerns
Southern businesses refused to allow the railroad to extend to the South
There were fewer skilled workers in the South and people lacked capital
Transportation costs were lower in the South
16
Gentlemen's Agreement restricted immigration from
Mexico
China
Korea
Japan
17
His workers lived in well-appointed homes, but were required to follow very strict rules
Carnegie
Pullman
Rockefeller
Morgan
18
Which services did settlement houses provide?
All of these
job training, legal aid
Literacy
art, theater & dance
19
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Greatly improved interstate travel by rail
Opposed standardization of time
Brought the Bessemer process to the US
Was born in Scotland
20
Which invention lead to an increase in the number of women who worked?
electric light bulb
telephone
telegraph
typewriter
21
All of these contributed to rapid industrialization in the US except...?
Strict wage and price controls
Many inventions & innovations
immigration and migration
Plentiful natural resources
22
Pogroms
One reasons many Jews came to the US
are a form of religious persecution
were organized violence against Jewish villages
All of these
23
Janek's family came from what country?
Latvia
Russia
Poland
Germany
24
Railroad workers
were limited to an eight-hour day
were equally paid whether native-born or immigrant
lived and worked in very harsh conditions
earned very high wages
25
He created US Steel
Carnegie
Pullman
C. Vanderbilt
Morgan
26
The first billion dollar US Corporation was
US Steel
Standard Oil
Coca-Cola
Carnegie Steel
27
A business with complete control over production of something
Cake
Monopoly
Trust
Holding company
28
Controlling an industry from raw materials to finished products
Holding company
Vertical consolidation
Trusts
Horizontal consolidation
29
Which of the following is an example of nativism?
Ghettos
Settlement houses
Medical inspections at Ellis Island
Gentlemen's Agreement
30
The inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Lewis Latimer
Edwin L. Drake
Christopher Sholes
31
Specialization of labor is one result of the growth of the railroads
False
True
32
Mechanized farming equipment, railroads and skyscrapers
are examples of how steel production helped other businesses to grow
were developed first in the South
Had little impact on the lives of ordinary Americans
All of these
33
A tax on imports is called
vertical integration
a monopoly
an innovation
a tariff
34
Many workers felt that industrialization had reduced the value of human work
False
True
35
The movement to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture
Urbanization
Immigration Restriction League
Settlement
Americanization
36
Which of these made the vertical city possible?
Steam engine
Telephone
Transcontinental railroad
Bessemer process
37
Which is true about farmers and the RRs?
They supported the RRs selling govt land grants to business associates
They supported the idea of different shipping rates for different customers
They supported price fixing
They wanted the government to control the RR industry
38
He wrote "How the Other Half Lives"
Herbert Spenser
Jacob Riis
Thomas Burns
Daniel Cardenas
39
Before 1890, most immigrants to the US
Came from S and E Europe
were Protestant
were Roman Catholic
Were processed through Ellis Island
40
He invented a steam powered drill to find oil
Samuel F. B. Morse
Edwin L. Drake
Adan Villegas
Lewis Latimer
