Unit 2 Review Mr. Christie U.S. History A:B: Large scale immigration The demand for factory workers. Which of the following was not a cause of the Growth.

Unit 2 Review

Mr. ChristieU.S. History

A: B:Large scale immigration

The demand for factory workers.

Which of the following was not a cause of the Growth of cities after the Civil War?

C: D:Government policies to encourage people to leave small towns

Machinery on farms meant that less farm workers were needed

C.

Government policies to encourage people to leave small towns

A: B:Better relations between workers and bosses

Improved health and safety conditions

Large scale industrialization resulted in

C: D:Long hours and brutal working conditions

A desire by company owners for labor unions

C.

Long hours and brutal working conditions.

A: B:Socialists Philanthropists

During the late 1800s, critics of industrial leadersreferred to them as

C: D:Robber Barons Captains of Industry

C.

Robber Barons

A: B:The telegraph allowed for more accurate train times

The Bessemer Process made production of steel faster

Railroads were able to expand rapidly when

C: D:The Chrisholm trail reached the Kansas border

Native Americans were restricted to reservations

B.

The Bessemer Process made production of steel

faster

A: B:The Dawes Act The Homestead Act

Which of the following allowed each head of household over the age of 21 to claim 160

acres of western land?

C: D:The Morrill ActThe Americanization Act

B.

The Homestead Act

A: B:Cotton plantations to southern cities

Northern cities to Mexico

The transcontinental railroad connected

C: D:New York to Washington DC

The East to West Coast

D.

The East to West Coast

A: B:

Restrict the military involvement of the United States in foreign conflicts

Protect domestic businesses from foreign competition

The Americanization movement sought to

C: D:Diminish the role of government in the regulation of industry

Assimilate ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture.

C.

Assimilate ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture.

A: B:Alcatraz Island Angel Island

Most immigrants from Europe entered the United States through

C: D: Ellis IslandWashington D.C

D.

Ellis Island

A: B:Government housing programs for the poor

Steel frame buildings 10 stories or higher

Which would not have been seen in citiesAround 1910?

C: D:Street cars Different

neighborhoods for different ethnic groups

A.

Government housing programs for the poor

A: B:They eliminated crime in the ghetto

They were free from corruption

Immigrants supported city political machinesbecause?

C: D:They provided immigrants jobs and help

Of threats from political bosses

C.

They provided immigrants jobs and help

A: B:A company owned by more than one owner

A group of companies

Owned by one owner

A trust is best defined as

C: D:A portion of the profits A group of companies that agrees to cooperate on prices

A: B:Sick leaveOvertime pay.

What would be the highest priority of labor unionsDuring the late 1800’s and early 1900’s?

C: D:Equal pay for women Safer working conditions

D.

Safer working conditions

A: B:Social Gospel Theory Laissez-faire

:

C: D:Social DarwinismLifestyles of the rich and famous

"The wealthy are wealthy because they are the fittest and strongest of society; the poor are not." This describes the philosophy of:

(11.2.7)

C.

Social Darwinism

A: B:helping to make

electricity more widely available

developing a more efficient way of producing steel

C: D:inventing the telegraph and the telephone

inventing the refrigerator

One of Thomas Edison’s major accomplishments

was

C.

Inventing the telegraph and telephone.

A: B:Worked for less money than men

Were more available in Massachusetts at that time

Young women and children were hired for the Lowell mills mainly because they

C: D:

Were better workers than adult males

Wanted to move to places like Lowell

D.

It was careful about giving the new government powers

it had denied Parliament

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