Chapter 25 History Test Prep
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- 1.What simple change might have prevented the death of some of the 149 workers who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
- A.
Using fire-resistent fabrics
- B.
Allowing workers to join unions
- C.
Building safer passenger elevators
- D.
Keeping factory doors unlocked
- 2.As business grew bigger after the Civil War, labor unions were organized to represent the interests of
- A.
Investors
- B.
Customers
- C.
Managers
- D.
Workers
- 3.The wages offered many factory workers so low that
- A.
People would not take those jobs.
- B.
Everyone in the family had to work.
- C.
One wage earner could support a family.
- D.
No one was able to make a profit.
- 4.What attracted people to America's rapidly growing cities in the late 1800's?
- A.
Tenement housing
- B.
Job opportunities
- C.
Electric lighting
- D.
Art museums
- 5.Who said "Steel is king!" and made it happen
- A.
Thomas Edison
- B.
Alexander Graham Bell
- C.
John D. Rockefeller
- D.
Andrew Carnegie
- 6.A corporation is a
- A.
Partnership between two business-people working together.
- B.
Business that is owned by many investors.
- C.
Group of business formed to reduce competition.
- D.
Company that controls all production and sales of a product.
- 7.Most city factory workers lived in
- A.
Homes that they owned.
- B.
Ten-story skyscrapers.
- C.
Spacious suburbs.
- D.
Crowded slum neighborhoods.
- 8.What invention made it practical to locate factories at the top of ten-story skyscrapers in the late 1800's
- A.
The electric lightbulb.
- B.
The telephone
- C.
The electric elevator
- D.
The sewing machine
- 9.In the 1909 "Uprising of the 20,000, " striking garment workers in the New York City won
- A.
Free lunches.
- B.
Better wages.
- C.
Safer factories.
- D.
Paid vacations.
- 10.
- 11.The setting of this cartoon is the
- A.
White House
- B.
Supreme Court
- C.
U.S. Senate
- D.
Bank of the United States
- 12.Who od the small men sitting in the front represent?
- A.
Wealthy bankers
- B.
U.S. senators
- C.
Federal judges
- D.
Cabinet members
- 13.Who do the men who look like giant moneybags represent?
- A.
Business trusts
- B.
The Standard Oil trust
- C.
Business investors
- D.
Labor union ornganizers
- 14.The large men are shown using special entrance at the right for
- A.
Senators
- B.
The people
- C.
The president
- D.
Monopolies
- 15.Which caption best fits the cartoon?
- A.
"Government by and for the trusts!"
- B.
"in the trusts we trust!"
- C.
"The United States of Trusts!"
- D.
"Put your trust in the Senate!"
- 16.What is the cartoonist's message?
- A.
Trusts have made the nation richer.
- B.
Trusts are corrupting our government.
- C.
Trusts make business more efficient.
- D.
Trusts protect the free enterprise system.
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