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- 1. Multiple Choice
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?vertical integration
monopolization
industrialismlaissez-faire capitalism - 2. Multiple ChoiceBased on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhen was the Gilded Age?1870-19001820-18601900-19201865-1877
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWho was the "captain of industry" who created the Standard Oil Trust?Andrew CarnegieJohn D. RockefellerHenry FordCornelius Vanderbilt
- 5. Multiple ChoiceThis period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.World War IProgressive EraGilded ageRoaring Twenties
- 6. Multiple ChoiceThe political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?vertical integration
monopolization
industrialismlaissez-faire capitalism - 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich issue is this cartoon addressing?Political corruptionTemperanceCivil-service reformSegregation
- 8. Multiple ChoiceHow did the invention shown in this patent illustration affect industry?Machines needed to be repaired less frequentlyProducts could be manufactured on an assembly line.Businesses needed to hire skilled workersFactories could extend working hours.
- 9. Multiple ChoiceOne way the U.S. government responded to the problems caused by the conditions in this list was by —passing the Interstate Commerce Actimplementing the silver standard for currencycreating a federal jobs program for the unemployedestablishing a new tax on capital gains
- 10. Multiple ChoicePhotographs like this one by Jacob Riis in 1888 reflected a growing concern with--how life in America differed from that in foreign countriesthe use of photography to express human emotionspreserving the beauty of the natural environmentdocumenting urban conditions to promote social change
- 11. Multiple ChoiceImages such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were —requiring vocational training programs for childrenemploying children as a source of cheap laborseeking government regulation of child laborproviding safe working conditions for child laborers
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest.The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest.The fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants.The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants.
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhich Andrew Carnegie quotation best explains why he funded libraries like the one in this photograph?"Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies,...and often there is friction between the employer and the unemployed.""The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is...great.""The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.""This, then, is...the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance."
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhich group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon?Union leadersPhilanthropistsPolitical bossesNativists
- 15. Multiple ChoiceDescribe tenement housing.Single family homes in large cities.Apartments in small towns in the midwest.Cramped apartments in large cities that had disease & crime.Basement apartments in Chicago
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat happened as a result of the completion of the transcontinental rail road?Huge numbers of people moved to the coastIncreased number of buffalo on the PlainsIncreased migration to the WestNative Americans roamed the Plains more freely
- 17. Multiple ChoiceThe Bessemer ProcessLimited hours that children could workMade it cheaper to produce ironMade steel cheaper and strongerallowed the lightbulb to used across the country
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhich term described Carnegie and Rockefeller as people who gave millions of dollars to charity?Captains of IndustryPhilanthropistsRobber BaronsProgressives
- 19. Multiple ChoiceOf the following, which made it illegal to form trusts?AFL-CIOSherman Antitrust ActRoosevelt's Square DealPullman Workers Protection Act
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWho invented the phoneHenry FordAlexander Graham BellGeorge EastmanThomas Edison
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWho invented the lightbulbHenry FordAlexander Graham BellGeorge EastmanThomas Edison
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWho invented the automated assembly line?Henry FordAlexander Graham BellGeorge EastmanThomas Edison
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhat does this late nineteenth-century political cartoon by Thomas Nast satirize?the corruption of progressive reformersthe corruption of urban political machinesthe arrival of carpetbaggers to exploit the Souththe disagreements between Republicans and Democrats
- 24. Multiple ChoiceOne of the main leaders of Tammany Hall during the 1860s & 1870s wasWilliam BelknapJay GouldJim FiskWilliam Marcy Boss Tweed
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhat is Social Darwinism?Leaders in power want to retain powerDevolution of primatesSurvival of the fittestEugenics
- 26. Multiple ChoiceFact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century?Working conditionsRacial segregationClass discriminationGrowing prosperity
- 27. Multiple ChoiceHow do monopolies harm consumers?They eliminate competition and allow for high pricesThey encourage competition, but increase pricesThey increase competition and lower pricesThey increase prices while increasing the quality of products
- 28. Multiple ChoiceWho founded the American Federation of Labor?Samuel GompersCornelius VanderbiltEugene DebsUpton Sinclair
- 29. Multiple ChoiceMost nativists of the late 1800s would most likely have supported thecontinuation of the contract labor systemcreating of settlement houses to aid new immigrantsassimilation of Native American Indians into mainstream culturepassage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
- 30. Multiple ChoiceName for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages lowCaptain of IndustryRobber BaronPhilanthropistConsolidator
- 31. Multiple Choice"To-day three-fourths of its people live in the tenements, and the nineteenth century drift of the population to the cities is sending ever-increasing multitudes to crowd them . . . . We know now that there is no way out; that the “system” that was the evil offspring of public neglect and private greed has come to stay . . . . Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain . . . . The greed of capital that wrought the evil must itself undo it . . ."
—Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890
Why did Jacob Riis call the tenements “a bad bargain”?Reformers would only help people living in tenements if they agreed to change their lifestyles.Negotiations between labor unions and businesses made small strides in improving the lives of workers, but it was not enough.The lack of laws protecting workers allowed businesses to pay workers so little that the workers had to live in crowded, unsanitary conditions.People had more access to entertainment in the cities than in rural areas, but the trade-off was living in smaller and more crowded housing. - 32. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) and the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?To regulate some aspects of businessTo expand the positive features of the trustsTo favor big business over small companieTo move toward government ownership of key industries
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