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Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration Review
Industrialization, Urbanization, Immigration Review
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1
The stock market can be a risky place for your money.
True
False
2
What is one advantage that big corporations had over small businesses?
They could hire the best workers.
They had higher operating costs
They could produce goods more cheaply and efficiently.
Their products were more expensive.
3
Skyscrapers changed cities when land got expensive because
They allowed cities to grow outward
They were cool to look at.
They allowed cities to grow upward.
They were cheap to build
4
America’s industrialization made some people wealthy and created a growing
federal government.
agricultural system.
political machine.
middle class.
5
Supporters of laissez-faire generally favor
government protection of business.
tariffs on business.
no government regulation of business.
high prices in business.
6
Which of the following does NOT describe Andrew Carnegie?
made a fortune in steel
Horizontal Integration
a Scottish immigrant
gave away his fortune to charity
7
Political machines provided people with necessities such as jobs and housing in exchange for
graft.
wages.
kickbacks.
votes.
8
Which of the following was NOT a push factor?
religious persecution
war
poverty
availibility of jobs
9
Thomas Edison's, one of America's greatest inventors, is perhaps best known for this invention.
Light bulb
Telephone
Skyscraper
Radio
10
When workers stopped working to force owners to provide better pay or conditions, this was called a
strike
blacklist
lockout
stoppage
11
John D. Rockefeller was known for all of the following, EXCEPT:
monopolistic control a market
vertical integration
horizontal integration
owning Standard Oil
12
The Bessemer Process for making steel allowed for all of the following EXCEPT:
Lower cost steel
Better working conditions for workers
Skyscrapers
More railroads
13
New immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe during the late 1800s were
usually unskilled laborers.
highly educated.
landowners.
usually affluent or rich.
14
What name was given to industrial capitalists as a result of bribery scandals and corruption?
Robber Barons
Captains of Industry
JimCrow
Party Bosses
15
What do you call someone who is against immigration in often hostile ways?
Americanist
Antiimmigrist
Nativist
Unionist
16
A monopoly is a business practice in which one company
a popular board game
controls most of the market
when you control all resources
controls very little of the market
17
Which two groups mostly built the Transcontinental railroad?
Irish and Chinese
Mexicans and Canadians
Chinese and Germans
Irish and Italians
18
The total value of all goods and services that a country produces is its
distribution chain.
economy of scale.
supply of natural resources.
gross national product.
19
Who owns corporations?
Stockholders
Trustholders
The workers
The CEO
20
A labor union is a collection of workers that unites to bargain for all of the following EXCEPT
better schools
better working conditions
an 8 hour work day
better wages
21
Large apartment buildings for city laborers were called...
tenements
ghettos
skyscrapers
suburbs
