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Social Studies
5th -
6thgrade
Growth of big business and Reform Movement
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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a cause of Big Business?
a. agriculture
b. natural resources
c. new inventions
d. money for investments
e. entrepreneurs
- 2. Multiple Choice
Big business encouraged the United States government to continue an ____________ policy.
a. anti-immigration
b. open immigration
c. optional immigration
d. extra immigration
- 3. Multiple Choice
Men like Carnegie and Rockefeller developed business practices that allowed them to create ___________.
a. scams
monopolies
c. competition
d. fewer jobs
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is the difference between an agrarian economy and an industrial economy?
a. agriculture/manufacturing
b. railroads/automobiles
c. middle class/upper class
d. government/monoplies
- 5. Multiple Choice
As cities grew due to the increase in immigration and movement from the farm, middle class Americans were concerned about __________________.
a. sanitation
b. living conditions
c. corruption of city governments
d. all of the above
- 6. Multiple Choice
What was a "muckraker"
a. a worker in a horse stable
b. a parent of a child laborer
c. a writer who exposed unsafe working conditions
- 7. Multiple Choice
Reformers advocated restricting child labor and passing laws that required _____________________.
a. orphanages
b. school attendance
c. free food
- 8. Multiple Choice
The Temperance Movement led to which amendment to the Constitution?
a. 15th
b. 16th
c. 17th
d. 18th
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which amendment to the Constitution ended prohibition?
a. 19th
b. 20th
c. 21st
d. 22nd
- 10. Multiple Choice
Progressive reformers (people who wanted to change parts of the economy and society) were in favor of all but ONE of the following:
a. establishing city parks
b. safer housing
c. sanitation projects
d. child labor
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWho were reformers who worked together to improve society?Political MachinesSocialistsCapitalistsProgressives
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhose reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely?John DeweyWilliam Howard TaftWilliam McKinleyBoss Tweed
- 13. Multiple ChoiceJournalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive Movement were known as...MuckrakersProgressivesReformersCapitalists
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhy did child labor continue after the reforms of 1910?Greedy factory owners lied about workers' agesCorruption made government monitoring uselessPoor families needed the incomeThe courts established high child wage rates
- 15. Multiple ChoiceSomeone who creates their own business is called a(n)...EntrepreneurBillionaireInvestorStock Holder
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich industrialist is best known for his work in the steel industry?Charles LindbergAndrew CarnegieJohn Rockefeller
- 17. Multiple ChoiceOil industryCornelius VanderbiltAndrew CarnegieJohn D. RockefellerAbraham Lincoln
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhen handmade products were replaced by machines and mass productionindustrializationrevitalizationreconstructionurbanization
- 19. Multiple Choiceallows products to be mass produced generally allowing the price to decreaseassembly linepush factorpull factorsharecropping
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhich three big businesses transformed America in the years between 1870 and 1914?meatpacking, automobile, and constructionrailroads, steel and oiltextile, meatpacking and canalspolitical machines, settlement houses and ghettos
- 21. Multiple Choice
A company that eliminates its competition and controls an industry
corporation
trust
business cycle
monopoly
- 22. Multiple Choice
A legal group that owns stock in many companies
trust
corporation
philanthropist
socialism
- 23. Multiple Choice
A system for sending messages over wires using signals such as Morse Code
telegraph
electric generator
telephone
trust
- 24. Multiple Choice
System of rail lines that connect the East Coast to the West Coast of the United States.
telegraph
electric generator
EL lines
transcontinental railroad
- 25. Multiple Choice
Famous American inventor who is credited with inventing the phonograph, microphone, incandescent light bulb, and many others.
Andrew Carnegie
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
John D. Rockefeller
- 26. Multiple Choice
Oil business owner who donated half of his earnings towards charities
Thomas Edison
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Nikola Tesla
- 27. Multiple Choice
Business owner who donated much of his wealth towards universities and libraries.
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Thomas Edison
Nikola Tesla
- 28. Multiple Choice
What was one result of rapid industrialization and urbanization?
Farming became more popular.
People quit their city jobs and moved to the country.
Cities became overcrowded.
More farms were built.
- 29. Multiple Choice
The rise of big business meant most people worked at _____.
farms
plantations
factories
churches
- 30. Multiple Choice
Overcrowding in the cities caused problems such as ____.
Clean water and streets
pollution
too few jobs
good health
- 31. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the temperance movement?A Reform movement that wanted to ban the sale and consumption (drinking) of alcohol.Reform movement that fought for women's equal rights.Reform movement that improved care for the disabled.Reform movement that improved care of prisoners.
- 32. Multiple ChoiceTemperance was the movement to stop the use of ________ during the mid-1800s.tobaccoslaveryfactoriesalcohol
- 33. Multiple Choice
Which of these was not a goal of the Temperance Movement
end the consumption of alcohol
prevent people from buying alcohol
stop criminal behavior of drunk people
encourage people to drink alcohol
- 34. Multiple Choice
The Temperance Movement was...
the battle against alcoholic drinks
the battle against free speech
the battle against terrible factory conditions
the battle against women's rights
- 35. Multiple Choice
Abolitionists aimed to...
end slavery
keep slavery alive
end the drinking of alcohol
create an education system in the U.S.
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