Quiz Rise Of Industry: History
In the decades following the Civil War, the United States emerged as an industrial giant. Railroads expanded significantly, bringing even remote parts of the country into a national market economy. Test your knowledge with this quiz.
- 1.What is industrialization?
- A.
Using computers in the work place
- B.
Creating boats and trains
- C.
Using machinery to produce and distribute things
- D.
Making new inventions
- 2.Carnegie became rich and famous by producing what?
- A.
Steel
- B.
Electricity
- C.
Telephones
- D.
Cars
- 3.To make a huge profit, Carnegie
- A.
Produced the best product
- B.
Was the first person in the world to create his product
- C.
Kept costs low by controlling all parts of production
- 4.Who harnessed the power of electricy, finally making it useful?
- A.
Alexander Graham Bell
- B.
Thomas Edison
- C.
Benjamin Franklin
- D.
Andrew Carnegie
- 5.What is a corporation?
- A.
A really REALLY big business
- B.
A business that uses machines
- C.
A business owned by many investors
- D.
A business that is doing well
- 6.Why is a monopoly so dangerous?
- A.
It can cause higher prices
- B.
It limits product improvement
- C.
It allows for low quality goods
- D.
All of the above
- 7.Low quality urban housing buildings were called
- A.
Apartments
- B.
Projects
- C.
Bloc housing
- D.
Tenements
- 8.Which is NOT true about working conditions in factories
- A.
People often worked 24 hour shifts
- B.
If you complained you could easily be replaced
- C.
Most factory women earned about $1 to $3 a day.
- D.
Young children would work for a few dollars a week
- 9.What is a trade union?
- A.
A company that trades with other countries
- B.
A group that trades within the Union (U.S.)
- C.
Workers who would join together to fight for better working conditions
- D.
Police who were used to control strikers
- 10.Uriah Stephens started this early trade union though it did not last too long.
- A.
American Federation of Labor
- B.
Knight of Labor
- C.
Laborists
- D.
Homestead Labor group
- 11.The American Federation of Labor (AFL) used this method instead of strikes.
- A.
Collective bargaining
- B.
Sit-ins
- C.
Work stoppages
- D.
Protests
- 12.Women workers did not form unions
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.How did the Homestead strike end?
- A.
Frick and Carnegie gave into worker demands
- B.
The workers gave up and went back to work
- C.
Violence broke out between strikers and private guards, but the plant still reopened
- D.
Carnegie died which ended the problem
- 14.Why couldn't the women in the Triangle factory get better working conditions?
- A.
They didn't have a union.
- B.
Their strikes were ignored and they were locked out of the factory.
- C.
The strikes they staged led to violence.
- D.
They were too afraid to complain.
- 15.Rockefeller owned a trust (a group of corporations) in what industry?
- A.
Steel
- B.
Coal
- C.
Trains
- D.
Oil
- 16.What simple change might have prevented the death of some the 149 workers who perished in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
- A.
Allowing workers to join unions
- B.
Building safer passenger elevators
- C.
Using fire-resistant fabrics
- D.
Keeping factory doors unlocked
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