US History II
Mr. Grundfest
Industrialization/Immigration Test Review
1. What most freed manufacturers from restrictions on where factories could be built?
2. Why was Pullman, Illinois an unusual town?
3. What was the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1867?
4. What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act?
- What methods did Andrew Carnegie use to gain control of a large percentage of the steel industry?
6. What did Social Darwinism say? How did it affect business and society?
7. Why were Labor Unions generally unpopular with industrial management?
8. The use of standardized time that utilized time zones was introduced in order to benefit which industry?
9. What was The Industrial Workers of the World?
10. When did the great waves of immigrants came to the United States?
11. Which nationalities had specific laws directed against them?
12. Who used the power of the presidency to clean up the New York Customs House but was unable to get legislative support for civil service reform?
13. Why was Civil Service reform a national issue in the 1870s and 1880s?
14. What was the main purpose of the social gospel movement?
15. People who disliked the new immigrants and sometimes took actions against them were called:
16. Why was photographer Jacob Riis famous?
17. John D. Rockefeller
18. Henry Bessemer
19. Thomas Alva Edison
20. George Washington Plunkitt
21. Eugene V. Debs
22. George Westinghouse
23. William Marcy Tweed
24. Samuel Gompers
25. Alexander Graham Bell
26. Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
27. George M. Pullman
28. William "Big Bill" Haywood
29. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
30. Strikes at various businesses
31. Collective Bargaining
32. Tammany Hall
33. Interstate Commerce Act
34. Trusts
35. Andrew Carnegie
36. George Washington Plunkitt