Western Movement, Industrial Growth, and Progressive Era

Western Movement, Industrial Growth, and Progressive Era

Multiple Choice

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

____ 1. 1. Steel changed people’s lives by making possible the

a. / invention of radio. / c. / development of electricity.
b. / construction of skyscrapers. / d. / establishment of time zones.

____ 2. 2. Capitalism fueled industrialization by

a. / requiring inventors to file patents.
b. / encouraging entrepreneurs to establish businesses.
c. / giving the country many natural resources.
d. / ensuring that all workers received high wages.

____ 3. 3. Which innovation extended the number of hours in a day that Americans could work and play?

a. / Bessemer process / c. / refrigeration
b. / telegraph technology / d. / Electricity

____ 4. 4. Which industry most spurred economic growth and innovation in related industries?

a. / railroads / c. / oil
b. / food / d. / Steel

____ 5. 5. The Sherman Antitrust Act imposed limitations upon which group?

a. / farmers / c. / large corporations and businesses
b. / Congress / d. / small-business owners

____ 6. 6. In the late 1800s, before unions were created, workers ______.

a. / faced low wages and long hours in unsafe working conditions.
b. / took control of the factories in which they worked.
c. / Worked with their employers to change labor laws.
d. / increased the amount of time they had available for recreation and leisure.

____ 7. 7. Which of the following limited membership to skilled craftspeople and focused on economic reforms?

a. / Knights of Labor / c. / American Federation of Labor
b. / American Railway Union / d. / Industrial Workers of the World

____ 8. 8. All of the following were goals of labor unions except

a. / increasing wages of workers / c. / allowing more immigrants in the US
b. / improving safety of workers / d. / shortening the work day

____ 9. 9. In which system does one company control the businesses that make up all phases of a product’s development?

a. / horizontal monopoly / c. / trust
b. / cartel / d. / vertical monopoly

____ 10. 10. In the late 1800s, workers tolerated poor wages and working conditions because they

a. / thought that the government would protect them.
b. / believed it had to get worse before it got better.
c. / could be replaced easily by other workers.
d. / were tricked by employers into taking dangerous jobs.

____ 11. 11. Which labor leader began the American Federation of Labor?

a. / Samuel Gompers / c. / Eugene V. Debs
b. / Terence V. Powderly / d. / Uriah Smith Stephens

____ 12. 12. Which of the following did not help industrial growth from 1865 to 1915

a. / steel production / c. / the transcontinental railroad
b. / the cotton gin / d. / mass immigration

____ 13. 13. Most new immigrants lived in cities

a. / to be close to jobs. / c. / to abandon their traditions.
b. / to meet many Americans. / d. / because cities were welcoming.

____ 14. 14. Which invention made the building and use of skyscrapers feasible?

a. / mass transit / c. / zoning laws
b. / elevators / d. / Suburbs

____ 15. 15. Which of the following most accurately describes agriculture in the South after the Civil War?

a. / dominated by cotton. / c. / dominated by tobacco
b. / a wide variety of crops / d. / mostly vegetables

____ 16. 16. Which of the following accurately describes the effects of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments on the lives of southerners?

a. / These amendments had little effect on the lives of southerners.
b. / Black southerners were given fewer rights.
c. / White southerners were happy about black southerners’ new rights.
d. / Black southerners had more political and economic freedom.

____ 17. 17. How did southern blacks lose rights in the years after the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments?

a. / New amendments later limited black southerners’ legal status.
b. / Few black southerners took advantage of their newfound freedoms.
c. / Jim Crow laws or black codes were passed in southern states to limit freedoms
d. / Black southerners did not lose any rights during these years.

____ 18. 18. The Ku Klux Klan

a. / supported black farmers. / c. / encouraged cooperation among farmers.
b. / helped freed slaves. / d. / used violence and intimidation.

Use the graph and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following questions.

____ 19. 19. In which year did railroad travel exceed 18,000miles?

a. / 1860 / c. / 1890
b. / 1880 / d. / 1900

____ 20. 20. The first great move to the West was spurred by

a. / the railroad. / c. / mining.
b. / vigilantes. / d. / ranching.

____ 21. 21. Homesteaders on the plains usually built homes of

a. / bricks. / c. / stone.
b. / wood. / d. / sod.

____ 22. 22. Which of the following best describes Native Americans’ situation at the end of the Indian Wars?

a. / They held onto their traditional homelands.
b. / They were forced to move west to live on reservations.
c. / They lived traditional lives on reservations throughout the Northeast.
d. / They assimilated into American culture.

____ 23. 23. How did new railroads benefit western cattle ranchers?

a. / provided a way to transport meat to eastern markets
b. / allowed cowboys to travel easily between cattle herds and their homes
c. / made it easier for ranchers to keep track of their herds
d. / encouraged eastern cowboys to make a living in the West

____ 24. 24. Which of the following best describes the lives of typical western homesteaders in the late 1800s?

a. / overcrowded but exciting / c. / peaceful and prosperous
b. / challenging yet comfortable / d. / difficult and lonely

____ 25. 25. How did railroads influence the growth of western territories?

a. / The ability to bring in goods slowed industrial development.
b. / Railroads spurred the creation and expansion of towns along the western rail route.
c. / Towns at the ends of railroad lines became ghost towns when the lines were extended.
d. / Settlers moved away from Native American lands to follow the railroad routes.

____ 26. 26. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

a. / barred U.S. cities from hiring Chinese workers.
b. / prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country.
c. / stripped Chinese Americans of their U.S. citizenship.
d. / forced Chinese children to attend segregated schools.

____ 27. 27. Unlike African American men, women in the late 1800s

a. / had to pay a poll tax to vote.
b. / were able to vote under grandfather clauses.
c. / did not have the legal right to vote.
d. / experienced no restrictions when voting.

Use the following graph to answer the following question.

____ 28. 28. In which decade did the number of women employed in manufacturing increase most?

a. / 1860-1870 / c. / 1890-1900
b. / 1870-1880 / d. / 1900-1910

____ _29. Which action led to the “separate but equal” doctrine?

a. / the 1908 Springfield riot
b. / the Plessy v. Ferguson decision
c. / the first meeting of the Niagara Movement
d. / the segregation of federal government offices in 1914

_____ 30. Which of the following does not describe the Homestead strike?

a. / Shut down almost all of the nation’s railroad system
b. / Carnegie steel workers were involved
c. / Pinkerton detectives fought against striking workers to get them back to work
d. / Was very violent

Matching

Match the correct term or person with its definition. You will not use all of the terms and people.

a. / John D. Rockefeller / h. / mass production
b. / Jim Crow Laws / i. / Andrew Carnegie
c. / Homestead Act / j. / Knights of Labor
d. / Thomas Edison / k. / entrepreneur
e. / sweatshop / l. / American Federation of Labor
f. / monopoly / m. / Cornelius Vanderbilt
g. / Interstate Commerce Commission / n. / Joseph Glidden

____ 31. a system for turning out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively

____ 32. a person who invests money in a business venture to make a profit

____ 33. complete control of a product or service

____ 34. an oil tycoon who created a horizontal monopoly

____ 35. a small, hot, dirty workhouse

____ 36. the inventor who wanted to develop affordable lighting for homes

____ 37. a steel tycoon who used a vertical monopoly

____ 38. rules set up to keep blacks from having equal rights

____ 39. Created the first Railroad Empire in the United States

40. Invented Barbed Wire to protect farms from grazing cattle

a. / cash crop / j. / Ellis Island
b. / Farmers’ Alliance / k. / Chief Joseph
c. / Civil Rights Act of 1875 / l. / Wounded Knee
d. / reservation / m. / transcontinental railroad
e. / Sand Creek Massacre / n. / Open range
f. / Sitting Bull / o. / Exodusters
g. / Homestead Act / p. / Tenement

41. Leader of the Sioux Indian Tribe

42. Point of entry into the United States for most European immigrants

43. Method of raising cattle by letting them wander freely

44. Small, crowded, dirty housing area where many early immigrants lived

. 45. a rail link connecting the East and the West coasts

____ 46. Leader of the Nez Perce tribe who gave the “I will fight no more forever” speech

____ 47. a specific area set aside by the U.S. government for the use of Indians

____ 48. legislation that gave black citizens the right to ride trains and use other public facilities

____ 49. legislation that provided farm plots for people willing to live on and develop the land for five years

____ 50. a crop grown not for its own use but to be sold