SOL Review Quiz #6 (Industrialization-Urbanization)

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1. The period before and after the Civil War is known as the Age of the ______________, who found work on long
drives which was the _______________________________.
a. Cowboy taking cattle from the Midwestern Cities to the Southern Plains
b. Cowboy taking cattle from open plains to the Midwestern Cities
c. Railroad taking immigrants from the Mississippi to California
d. Railroad - taking immigrants from California to the East Coast
2. What did the Homestead Act of 1862 do?
a. Gave land to ex-slaves in the North
b. Gave land between the Plains and the Rocky mountains to people who would farm and live on it.
c. Gave land to between the East Coast and Texas to people who would farm and live on it.
d. Gave land to Union soldiers in the West for fighting in the Civil War.
3. Which group of people went West after the Civil War looking for economic opportunities?
a. Northerners and African Americans
b. Southerners and African Americans
c. Southerners and Cowboys
d. Immigrants and Northerners
4. The rise of corporations helped fuel the growth of industry in the late 19 th and early 20th centuries by using vast
wealth. Why were corporations the most popular business form?
a. Corporation had become monopolies in the steel industry.
b. Corporations used investments of stockholders who benefited from limited liability.
c. Corporations had been granted their original charters during the colonial period by the King of
England.
d. Corporations engaged only in foreign commerce, which can not be taxed by the government.
5. The Bessemer Process was essential to industrialization as a way to:
a. Produce electricity to send to peoples homes
b. Drive cattle to the markets
c. Manufacture automobiles more quickly
d. Produce high grade steel quickly and inexpensively
6. Which industrialist was a Scottish immigrant who built a steel empire?
a. Andrew Carnegie
b. J.P. Morgan
c. John D. Rockefeller

d. Cornelius Vanderbilt

7. Which industrialist was a genius in finance?

a. Andrew Carnegie
b. J.P. Morgan

c. John D. Rockefeller

d. Cornelius Vanderbilt

8. Who was the founder of the Standard Oil Trust?

a. Andrew Carnegie
b. J.P. Morgan

c. John D. Rockefeller

d. Cornelius Vanderbilt

9. Who consolidated railroads and cut the travel time from New York to Chicago in half?
a. Andrew Carnegie
b. J.P. Morgan
c. John D. Rockefeller
d. Cornelius Vanderbilt
10. What was the governments policy of not regulating business known as?
a. Bessemer Process
b. laissez-faire economics c. vertical integration

d. self-determination

11. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, African Americans moved to Northern cities in search of jobs and to
escape poverty and discrimination. This is referred to as:
a. The Great Migration b. The Great Relocation c. The Trans-Generation d. The Great Exodus
12. Ida B. Wells is most closely associated with:
a. womens rights movement
c. black suffrage movement

b. anti-lynching crusade
d. free education movement

13. Which person favored social segregation of the races as the best way to achieve equality?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Ida B. Wells
c. Upton Sinclair
d. W.E.B. Dubois
14. Which person demanded total equality immediately?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Ida B. Wells

c. Upton Sinclair

15. Which ethnic group was denied immigration to the U.S. by a law passed in 1882?
a. Japanese
b. Chinese
c. Italians

d. W.E.B. Dubois
d. Mexicans

16. The most important immigration station was ______________, which was located at _____________?
a. Angel Island: New York
b. Ellis Island : New York
c. Ellis Island: Boston
d. Freedom Island: San Francisco
17. The difference from the Old Immigrants and the New Immigrants was that:
a. Old Immigrants came from Africa, New Immigrants came from Europe
b. Old Immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe, New Immigrants came from Southern and
Eastern Europe
c. Old Immigrants arrived with much less money than New Immigrants
d. There was not much difference between the two groups
18. The public schools served an essential role in the process of assimilating immigrants into American society.
This
means that schools were a way to:
a. keep young people off the street, especially the immigrants.
b. encourage child labor among immigrants.
c. teach English and American customs to immigrants.
d. force all groups to live and cooperate together.
19. Which is not true about the contributions of immigrants to America?
a Japanese workers helped to build the transcontinental railroad
b. Immigrants worked in steel mills in the Northeast.
c. Immigrants worked in the clothing industry New York City
d. Italians and Slavs worked in the mines of the East.
20. What does the phrase American melting pot describe?
a. the anti-immigrant feeling sweeping across America
b. the segregation of the cultures in American cities
c. the joining of many cultures in America to become one
d. the rising of tenement housing in the cities