Reform Movements

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Reform Movements

• The Temperance Movement was an
• attempt to alter immoral actions by -

1. Providing women the opportunity to vote
2. Banning the consumption of alcohol
3. Outlawing the use of child labor
4. Providing tax relief for immigrants

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Immigration

• In the late 1800s, the increase for
• tenement building was a direct result
• of ____?

1. Changing roles for women during war
2. Rapid growth of cities due to immigrants
3. Westward expansion by Americans
4. Young children working in factories

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Immigration

• Which of the following BEST describes
• a tenement?

1. Cramped quarters on a ship
2. Place to go for food and shelter
3. A run-down apartment building
4. A suburb of the city

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Immigration

• Hull House, a famous settlement house
• in Chicago, was founded by which of
• the following?

1. Jane Addams
2. Susan B. Anthony
3. Bessie Smith
4. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Immigration

• During the 1800s/ early 1900s,
• working conditions were _____?

• Good, with an 8-hour day, good wages, and safe
• conditions.
• Okay, with high wages, and fairly safe
  conditions.
• Poor, with long hours, low wages, and unsafe
  conditions.
• Poor, with short hours, low wages, and safe
  conditions.

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Immigration

• Where did most of the post Civil War
• immigrants come from?

1. Eastern China
2. South Africa
3. Northern and Western Asia
4. Southern and Eastern Europe

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Immigration

• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• prevented Chinese from?

1. Leaving Ellis Island
2. Immigrating to America
3. Leaving America
4. Emigrating from China

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Immigration

• This picture most
• likely represents
• what?

1. Westward expansion
2. Immigration
3. Labor Union
4. Homestead strike

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Immigration

• Americas first attempt to limit the number of
• immigrants entering the United States began
• in 1882 with the inception of?

1. Restriction on Russian immigrants
2. The Chinese Exclusion Act
3. The Japanese Exclusion Act
4. Standard Quota for formula system

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Immigration

• What product was most responsible for
• the growth of the major industrial area
• in Detroit, Michigan?

1. Oil industry
2. Textile industry
3. Automobile industry
4. Steel industry

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Immigration

• After the Civil War, what city became
• the center of the meat packing
• industry?

1. Sacramento
2. Kansas City
3. Pittsburgh
4. Chicago

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Immigration

• Which of the following is NOT a reason
• immigrants came to the United States
• following the Civil War?

1. For a new adventure
2. To begin an oppressive government
3. Hope for a better opportunity
4. Religious freedom

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Industrialization

• Alexander Graham Bell invented the -

1. Cotton gin
2. Telephone
3. Light bulb
4. Steam boat

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Industrialization

• Which is the correct combination?

1. Cotton gin - Carnegie
2. Telephone - Rockefeller
3. Lighting and Electricity - Edison
4. Railroads - Bell

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Industrialization

• Which was NOT a result of affordable
• automobiles?

1. Growth of cities
2. Greater mobility
3. Creation of jobs
4. Suburban developments

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Industrialization

• Which statement is evidence that labor unions
• were more powerful after World War II?

1. More workers were injured in factory accidents.
2. Workers worked more hours for less money.
3. Fewer workers wanted to join the union.
4. Workers got new benefits and higher salaries.

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Industrialization

• Andrew Carnegie is most associated
• with -

1. Railroads
2. Steel
3. Mining
4. Oil

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Industrialization

• John D. Rockefeller formed a
• monopoly in -

1. Steel
2. Railroads
3. Oil
4. Cattle

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Industrialization

• All of the following are matched
• correctly EXCEPT?

1. John D. Rockefeller oil
2. Andrew Carnegie steel
3. Henry Ford automobile
4. David Sarnoff - railroads

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Industrialization

• The assembly line increased?

1. The need for skilled workers
2. The quality of products while increasing costs
3. The quantity of products while decreasing costs
4. Worker safety on the job

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Industrialization

• As a result of new technologies in the
• 1920s, Americans had -

1. More chores to complete
2. Extra leisure time
3. Less time to play sports
4. An increase income

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Industrialization

• Labor unions formed to -

1. Help workers work longer hours for lower pay
2. Fight for child labor laws, shorter working hours
   and better pay
3. Encourage the use of more child labor
4. Stop government interference in the workplace

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Industrialization

• When labor union workers protested
• low pay or working conditions, they
• used -

1. Monopolies
2. Child labor laws
3. Strikes
4. Trusts

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Industrialization

• The Homestead Strike of 1892 involved-

1. Standard Oil employees
2. Workers from McCormick
3. Carnegies steel workers
4. Pullmans railway employees

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Industrialization

• Which of the following workers could
• have been a member of the American
• Federation of Labor?

1. Factory worker
2. Farmer
3. Slave
4. Doctor

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Industrialization

• One of the most important
• improvements in transportation in the
• early twentieth century was the -

1. Railroad
2. Automobile
3. Ships
4. Steam engine

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Industrialization

• Which of the following was most
• responsible for the decrease in the use
• of railroads for transporting goods?

1. Internet
2. Satellites
3. Interstate highways
4. telecommunications

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Industrialization

• John needs to research information about
• diabetes. Which modern technology
• would be the most useful?

1. Cell phone
2. Pager
3. Telegraph
4. Internet

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Industrialization

• Which of the following was
• accomplished by the space program in
• 1970?

1. Put a man on the moon
2. Create a city on the moon
3. Travel to the sun
4. Put a man on Mars

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Progressive Era

• What is Jane Addams mainly known for?

1. The creation of the American Federation of Labor
2. The work of Hull House
3. Her work in the womens suffrage movement
4. Writing a history of the Standard Oil Company

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Industrialization

• Why did Henry Ford use the assembly line?

1. To increase the number of cars and decrease the
   price
2. To decrease the number of cars and increase the
   price
3. To create a wider variety of cars
4. To pay his employees less

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Industrialization

• The creation of stocks, corporations,
• and trusts are most closely connected with -

1. Rise of big business
2. Development of the factory system
3. Formation of labor unions
4. Invention of the automobile

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Industrialization

• Who used the assembly line in the
• automobile industry?

1. John D. Rockefeller
2. Andrew Carnegie
3. Henry Ford
4. J.P. Morgan

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Industrialization

• Guglielmo Marconi was the first to sent
• messages using -

• Radio waves
• Telegraph
• Telephone
• Television

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Progressive Era

• Which is the best summary of the aims
• of the Progressive Movement?

1. Cleaning up the worlds cities
2. Eliminating abuses like crime and alcohol
3. Helping new immigrants find homes
4. Solving the problems created by Industrialization