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What was the assembly line?
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Trade unions :
Trades between the United States and Great Britain
groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
A group of bandits
A trade route in the North
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What was the assembly line?
An old radio show
A manufacturing method used to make products faster
A line that assembles things
The first model car
3
Consolidation is...
When several small business gather to form a large business
When a large business partners with another large business
When one large business aquires several small businesses
When a small business acquires more employees
4
Who invented the telegraph
Cyrus McCormick
John deere
Samuel F.B Morse
Lenorad gale
5
Dangerous urban factories were known as
tenements
sweatshops
mills
6
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
made monopolies illegal
all of the above
brought peace to the industrial community
paved the way for better working conditions
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What did George Eastman invent?
The magic lantern
The Kodak camera
Ramen
The Polaroid camera
8
Collective bargaining is....
Get together on Fridays
Regulate unfair employment practices
Representatives meet with an employer to discuss wages etc.
Bargaining all together
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All of the following were railroad barons of the late nineteenth century
EXCEPT:
Cornelius Vanderbilt
James J. Hill
Leland Stanford
Andrew Carnegie
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Eli H Janney
made the kodak
made the pullman sleeping car
made it easier to link railway cars (car couplers)
invented a small box camera
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what were pull factors of immigration
economic crash
war natural disaster and civil wars
better air quality and less work
higher wages promise of a better life and more jobs
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What did George Westinghouse invent?
Windshield wiper
Air brakes
Steam engine
Dynamite
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What did John D. Rockefeller establish?
Steel
Standard oil
Iron
Oil
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What other things did settlement houses and churches provide to immigrants?
All of the above
English and cooking lessons
Financial aid and American fashion counseling
Daycares for their children
15
What is a stock?
Partial ownership in a company
An investment in a particular bank account
A large corporation
A particular business
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Which of the following is
NOT
true about the Gilded Age?
Viewing TV became a popular activity
Literacy rates increased
Leisure time increased
Spectator sports became a popular activity
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The Pullman Strike of 1894 ended when
Strike breakers were hired to end it
Federal government issued an injunction to stop it
President Cleveland sided with striking workers
Rioters destroyed the Pullman Company
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Suburbs include ____________________
houses and neighborhoods
countryside
cities
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Wealthy people during the gilded age believed they were rich because they were superior
True
False
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Tenements were _
Spacious land developments in Florida
Compounds for controlling immigration
Cramped and crowded apartments
Big Mansions owned by Robber Barons
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How did railroad rebates work?
fixed fares
reduced fares for poor customers
gave discounts to biggest customers
divided up business in an area
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The three R's of reform are:
residence, rent, reform
residence, research, reform
ride, run, rumble
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What did immigrants have to do according to the Immigration Act of 1917?
Surrender their belongings
Quota System
Literacy Test
get permission from their home country
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Who led the American Federation of Labor
Miles Mitchell
Thomas Edison
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
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Who started the Hull House?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Booker T. Washington
Ida B. Wells
Jane Adams
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The three factors a country needs in order to grow economically are
factories, labor, capital
land, labor, capital
money, workers, transportation
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What are mergers?
Basically profit
The things at the end of the shoelace
Two companies forming one company
Money that a company can't spend
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who made the model T automobile
walt disney
henry ford
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin d. Roosevelt
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Identify the goals of the Knights of Labor
End child labor and convict labor
All of the Above
Equal wages and have compensation for job-related injuries
The 8-hour workday
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Who was Andrew Carnegie
Zach Rebuck's brother
A anti-industrialist who was poor and chanted women's rights
A industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry
Who is Anreu Carnigy
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The American Federation of Labor only accepted workers that were...
none of the above
both skilled and not skilled
skilled
unskilled
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What are Dividends?
negative earnings paid to the CEO
Profits paid the workers only
Profits paid to Shareholders
Profits paid to the CEO
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Secret agreements between railroad barons to raise prices.
standard gauge
discount
rebates
pools
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What is Monopoly?
meaning of product
control
Exclusive control over a product or means of producing it.
product
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What was the Chinese exclusion act?
Allowed only one Chinese immigrant
Welcomed Chinese immigrants to the U.S.
Restricted Chinese immigration to the U.S.
Allowed only 5 Chinese immigrants
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A nativist...
Opposed labor unions
Opposed immigration
Opposed industrialization
Opposed monopolies
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What was the Hull House?
A settlement house to house immigrants and help with assimilation.
A place where nativists would plot against immigrants.
A house that repaired the Hull of ships.
Settlement house that would house immigrants and would not assimilate them.
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Railroad barons controlled the nations railroad traffic
True
False
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Alexander Graham Bell invented?
movie camera
telephone
peanuts
lightbulb
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The immigration act of 1917
Encouraged lots of immigration
Stopped all immigration
Allowed more Indian immigrants to come
Banned immigration from Asian countries
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Invention of Gustavus Swift?
Refrigerated Train Car
Transcontinental Railroad
Pullman Car
Sleeping Car
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what did henry ford invent
the phone
the ford car
airplane
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The Pullman Strike was successful
True
False
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What is the telegraph
Business owner
Device the sends messages by wire
inventor of steel plow
Raising two or more crops for sale
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Who Invented the assembly line?
Karl Benz
Louis Chevrolet
Henry Ford
John Francis Dodge
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Immigration push factors are…
reasons people leave their homelands
reasons people stop working
reasons people begin working
reasons people come to a new place
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What does the Gilded Age mean?
Beautiful gold to cover the rottenness
fools gold
uncomfortable reforms
beautiful
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What was the advantage of adopting a standard gauge.
It allowed faster shipment of goods at a reduced cost
ALL OF THE ABOVE
NONE
it allowed slower shipment of goods at a reduced cost
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Emigrate
of or relating to the city
to leave one country and settle in another
to take advantage of
a competitor or opponent
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Strikebreakers
Were brought in to keep factories running during a strike
All other answers are correct
Aka Scabs
Were used by management to end strikes
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What was the nickname for Mary Harris Jones?
Mother Harris
Mother Duckling
Mother Jones
Momma Bear
