Review Chapters 19/20

Materials to Study:

  1. Reading from the book- Chapters 19 and 20
  2. Class Notes
  3. Railroad
  4. Ads and Stores
  5. Mark Twain
  6. Presidents (Hayes-Harrison)
  7. McKinley or Bryan
  8. Gold Standard
  9. Political Machines
  10. Social Darwinism and Evangelical Thought
  11. Worksheets
  12. Inventors Chart
  13. Union Research Guide

Vocabulary:

Pool

Stock

Trust

Monopoly

Union

Tenement

The Gilded Age

Settlement house

Other

Haymarket Riots

Pullman Strike

Reformers

City Gospel

Social Darwinism

Evangelical Thought

People

Vanderbilt

Cyrus Field

John Rockefeller

George Westinghouse

Edwin L. Drake

Thomas Edison

Henry Bessemer

Andrew Carnegie

William J. Bryan

Mark Hanna

Charles Guiteau

Chester Arthur

Rutherford Hayes

James Garfield

Grover Cleveland

Alexander Graham Bell

George Pullman

Mark Twain

Text Reading

Multiple Choice

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. The practice of combining several companies in an industry is called

a. / rebate.
b. / monopoly.
c. / consolidation.
d. / philanthropy.

2. The inventor of the railroad sleeping car was

a. / Eli H. Janney.
b. / Gustavus Swift.
c. / George Westinghouse.
d. / George M. Pullman.

3. This inventor received more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime.

a. / Thomas Alva Edison
b. / Granville Woods
c. / Henry Ford
d. / George Westinghouse

4. This steel company owner was a great philanthropist.

a. / Granville Woods
b. / Gustavus Swift
c. / Andrew Carnegie
d. / Cyrus Field

5. After the failure of this strike, the steelworkers' union dwindled.

a. / Pullman Strike
b. / Homestead Strike
c. / Railroad Strike of 1877
d. / Haymarket Strike

6. Railroad barons were created because the industry

a. / concentrated.
b. / condensed.
c. / consolidated.
d. / collated.

7. This man invented the telephone.

a. / George Westinghouse
b. / Thomas Alva Edison
c. / Cyrus Field
d. / Alexander Graham Bell

8. This man's research lab was the country's first industrial research laboratory.

a. / Thomas Alva Edison
b. / Henry Ford
c. / Alexander Graham Bell
d. / George Westinghouse

9. This led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry.

a. / electricity
b. / air travel
c. / railroads
d. / Edwin L. Drake's well

10. This philanthropist built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide.

a. / George Westinghouse
b. / Andrew Carnegie
c. / Henry Ford
d. / John D. Rockefeller

11. Child-labor laws did not apply to this industry, which employed about 1 million children.

a. / textile
b. / steel
c. / agriculture
d. / mining

12. Economic troubles and this condition drove people to emigrate.

a. / high cost of housing
b. / weather
c. / ethnic group persecution
d. / poor schools

13. It took immigrants this long to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

a. / 12 days
b. / 60 days
c. / 30 days
d. / 10 days

14. Most Asian immigrants went through the processing center on

a. / Ellis Island.
b. / HarborIsland.
c. / Statue of Liberty Island.
d. / AngelIsland.

15. This person designed New York's Central Park and several parks in Boston.

a. / Jane Addams
b. / Frederick Law Olmsted
c. / Jacob Riis
d. / Louis Sullivan

16. This person argued that schools should relate learning to the interests, problems, and concerns of students.

a. / Jane Addams
b. / John Dewey
c. / Booker T. Washington
d. / Joseph Pulitzer

17. This man wrote How the Other Half Lives, a book that showed the terrible conditions of the tenements.

a. / Louis Sullivan
b. / Charles Dudley Warner
c. / Jacob Riis
d. / Mark Twain

18. This writer described the joys and sorrows of the upper-class Easterners.

a. / Mark Twain
b. / Edith Wharton
c. / Paul Laurence Dunbar
d. / Stephen Crane

19. This American artist painted stormy sea scenes.

a. / Thomas Eakins
b. / James Whistler
c. / Mary Cassatt
d. / Winslow Homer

20. These were the beginning of today's multimillion-dollar film industry.

a. / nickelodeons
b. / film shows
c. / "moving pictures"
d. / radio programs