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- 1. Multiple ChoiceFactory managers were encouraged to view workers as interchangeable parts byTerence V. Powderly, to create employment opportunities for all union membersFrederick W. Taylor, to increase efficiency and worker productivity.Henry Ford, to speed automobile production and make cars more widely available.Andrew Carnegie, to encourage the firing of disruptive workers and the hiring of obedient ones
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best describes Exodusters?settlers who moved west to establish religious communities.former slaves who migrated in large numbers to Kansas from the SouthNative Americans who lived in shelters carved into limestoneminers who moved west in search of gold
- 3. Multiple ChoiceAndrew Carnegie managed to keep costs of production for his steel mills low byapplying for government loans and taking advantage of corporate tax breaks.using assembly lines and other advanced manufacturing methodspurchasing machinery to produce steel instead of hiring workers.buying the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing process.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceThe poorly built, overcrowded apartment buildings often occupied by immigrants were calledskyscrapers.tenementssettlement housesbenevolent societies
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the main activity of cowboys in the late 1800s?managing their ranchesbreeding horses to sell at auctionsmaintaining order in cattle townsherding cattle to markets or to the plains for grazing
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThe mining boom began following theinvention of dynamite by Alfred Nobeldiscovery of the Comstock Lodefounding of the National Union of Miners.passage of the Homestead Act.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhy were immigrants often forced to take low-paying industrial jobs?Immigrants lacked the skills needed to obtain higher-paying jobsAmericans refused to allow immigrants to farmHiring immigrants for other jobs was illegalImmigrants did not have the equipment to work in any other fields
- 8. Multiple ChoiceIn the 1890s African Americans moved from the rural South to northern cities in order tochange their identitieslive in a place with many different cultures.escape discrimination and find jobsescape religious persecution
- 9. Multiple ChoiceHow did the federal government assist railway companies in the construction of the transcontinental railroad?granted them millions of acres of public land that they could sell for cashused taxpayer dollars to pay-off debts incurred during constructiondid not charge them taxes on land and materials bought for the projectpromised them exclusive contracts to be the official carriers of the U.S. mail
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe airplane constructed by Wilbur and Orville Wright was poweredcoal.wind.gas.steam.
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following best describes the work of Thomas Edison?uninspiredpracticalimpracticalproblematic
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWho invented the telephone?Alexander Graham BellThomas EdisonOrville WrightHenry Bessemer
- 13. Multiple ChoiceLabor unions were formed becauseimmigrants refused to take less pay.women wanted higher pay than menworkers wanted better wages and working conditions.most factory managers would only hire children.
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich city had the greatest population growth between 1850 and 1900?New YorkSt. LouisBostonChicago
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe Pony Express was put out of business because its messengers were outpaced by_______________ .reservationsopen rangetelephonestelegrams
- 16. Multiple ChoiceThe United States broke its promise to let the_______________ Indians keep their land in Oregon.Nez PercéNavajoTrail of Tearssocial Darwinism
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe belief known as __________________ said that the “fittest” people would succeed in business and in their lives.social Darwinismnatural selectioncollective bargaininghorizontal integration
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe first event to lead to the end of the________________was the rise in competition for land on the plains.open rangeMorrill ActHomestead StrikePullman Strike
- 19. Multiple ChoiceHenry Ford’s idea of the________________made the process of constructing automobiles faster and cheaper.moving assembly linehorizontal integrationvertical integrationnatural selection
- 20. Multiple ChoiceStandard Oil developed__________ by buying nearly all other businesses in its field.horizontal integrationvertical integrationnatural selectionsocial Darwinism
- 21. Multiple ChoiceThe_______________ was a protest against the Carnegie Steel Company that intended to force the company not to cut jobs.Pullman StrikeHomestead StrikeHomestead ActMorrill Act
- 22. Multiple ChoiceThe 300-mile march of the Navajo across the desert to a reservation in Bosque Redondo, New Mexico, is known as the______________.Trail of TearsHomestead StrikeLong Walkmoving assembly line
- 23. Multiple ChoiceThe passage of the______________ gave small farmers, unmarried women, African Americans, and European immigrants a reason to move west in the 1860s.Homestead StrikePullman StrikeMorrill ActHomestead Act
- 24. Multiple Choice“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one.”~Sitting Bull
What can you conclude Sitting Bull thought about Native Americans?had been treated fairly by white societycould defeat white society by using forceshould comply with demands of white societyhad always honored their word in treaties - 25. Multiple Choiceviolated treaties with another country, but was renewed many timesJacob RiisChinese Exclusion ActFlorence Kelleybenevolent societies
- 26. Multiple Choicepublisher and founder of the New York World newspaperJacob RiisFlorence KelleyFrederick Law OlmsteadJoseph Pulitzer
- 27. Multiple Choicefocused on the needs of Chicago’s immigrant familiesEllis IslandHull Housemass transitsuburbs
- 28. Multiple Choicesystem of public transportation for large numbers of passengerssuburbsbenevolent societiessettlement housesmass transit
- 29. Multiple Choiceexposed the living conditions of many New York residents in How the Other Half LivesJacob RiisJoseph PulitzerFlorence KelleyFrederick Law Olmstead
- 30. Multiple Choiceovercrowded, low-standard apartment buildingstenementssettlement housesHull Housebenevolent societies
- 31. Multiple Choiceneighborhood institutions supplying education and recreation for the poorbenevolent societiessettlement housesmass transitsuburbs
- 32. Multiple Choicevisited sweatshops and wrote about the problems thereFrederick Law OlmsteadFlorence KelleyJoseph PulitzerJacob Riis
- 33. Multiple Choiceimmigrant organizations providing aid that few government agencies offeredbenevolent societiestenementssettlement housesmass transit
- 34. Multiple ChoiceThe Bessemer process sped up the procedure of refining oil.TrueFalse
- 35. Multiple ChoiceThomas Edison developed a power system that could send electricity over long distances.TrueFalse
- 36. Multiple ChoiceThe Massacre at Wounded Knee resulted in the death of Sioux leader Sitting Bull at the hands of reservation policeTrueFalse
- 37. Multiple ChoicePopulism failed because the government lacked power to enforce rail rate regulation.TrueFalse
- 38. Multiple ChoiceIn the late 1870s, a Paiute Indian named Sarah Winnemucca gave lectures on problems of the reservation system.TrueFalse
- 39. Multiple ChoiceThe first national labor union, the Knights of Labor, was founded in the 1870s.TrueFalse
- 40. Multiple ChoiceBig business continued to grow in America despite the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, which was difficult to enforce.TrueFalse
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