Unit 2 Test Review

Question 1

What industry is John D. Rockerfeller assosiated with?

Accepted Answer

Oil

Question 2

Federal law that stopped entry of an ethnic group because it endangered the good of localities.

Accepted Answer

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 3

This is an example of which type of intergration?

Accepted Answer

Vertical

Question 4

Concern for human welfare and advancement usually manifested by donations of money or property.

Accepted Answer

Philanthropy

Question 5

This is an example of which type of intergration?

Accepted Answer

Horizontal

Question 6

Immigrants benefited from the open door policy because Europe was overcrowded.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

Which of the following is a notorious political machine?

Accepted Answer

Boss Tweed

Question 8

Who founded the Kinights of Labor?

Accepted Answer

Terrence Powderly

Question 9

Who invented the telegraph and mores code?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Morse

Question 10

Where are the "old" immigrants from and when did they come to the United States?

Accepted Answer

Northwestern Europe Before 1880

Question 11

Who invented the light bulb?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Edison

Question 12

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 13

The process of an immigrant becoming a person who assimilates into society.

Accepted Answer

Americanization

Question 14

What is the role of political machines in this era?

Accepted Answer

They gave immigrants jobs in exchange for there votes

Question 15

What led to greater, faster, and more efficient work in mass production?

Accepted Answer

Assembly Lines

Question 16

What useful fuction do political machines serve in the late 1800's

Accepted Answer

They assisted in the assimilation of immigrants

Question 17

Federal law that regulatest he railroad industry particularly its monopolistic practices.

Accepted Answer

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 18

Ethnic neighborhoods with a sense of community familiar food customs, language, institutionsare

Accepted Answer

Ethnic Enclaves

Question 19

What caused the decline of the Knights of Labor?

Accepted Answer

the Haymarket Affair 1886

Question 20

Photographer and writer whose book How the Other Half Lives led to change in social reform.

Accepted Answer

Jacob Riis

Question 21

Which industry is Henry Ford associated with?

Accepted Answer

Automobiles

Question 22

What is bi-metalism?

Accepted Answer

The belief that both gold and silver should back US currency

Question 23

Which industry are the Vanderbilt's associated with?

Accepted Answer

Railroads

Question 24

Company owners benefited from the open door policy because they had a cheap labor force.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

An activist writer who wrote “The Jungle” and"Boston" to expose social injustices?

Accepted Answer

Upton Sinclair

Question 26

Which type of people supported the populist movement?

Accepted Answer

Farmers

Question 27

What is Laissez-Faire?

Accepted Answer

a policy of letting things take their own course, hands-off

Question 28

What is free enterprise?

Accepted Answer

When a business opperates with no government control.

Question 29

A federal land grant that stated land west of the Mississippi was priced at $10 for 160 acres.

Accepted Answer

The Homestead Act

Question 30

Which industry is Andrew Carnegie associated with?

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 31

Who wrote “The Gospel of Wealth”?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 32

Where are "new" immigrants from and when did they come to the United States?

Accepted Answer

Southern and Eastern Europe After 1880

Question 33

Who founded the Hull House/ Settlement Houses to help Europian immigrants?

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 34

Journalist best known for the breakup of the Standard Oil Companys monopoly

Accepted Answer

Ida Tarbell

Question 35

Who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

Accepted Answer

Samuel Gompers

Question 36

Which tactic was sometimes used by management in the late 1800s to resist the demands of labor?

Accepted Answer

Lockout

Question 37

This prohibits certain business activities such as monopolies or tursts from forming.

Accepted Answer

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 38

Why were most Labor unions formed?

Accepted Answer

In hope to influence big business.

Question 39

A series of acts of Congress that promoted the construction of a"transcontinental railroad”.

Accepted Answer

Pacific Railway Act

Question 40

Why did America encourage "open" Immigration from 1865-1921?

Accepted Answer

Industrial Revolution resulting in the need for a work force

Unit 2 Test Review

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Unit 2 Test Review

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