Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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How many hours separate Central and Eastern time?
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Which West Coast city was connected to the East by the Central Pacific and Union
Pacific
Railways?
a. | Seattle | c. | San Francisco | b. | Los Angeles | d. | Portland |
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Which railway connected Butte and Minneapolis?
a. | Great Northern | c. | Illinois Central | b. | Union Pacific | d. | Northern
Pacific |
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In which time zones were railroads concentrated in 1870?
a. | Pacific and Mountain | c. | Central and Pacific | b. | Mountain and Central | d. | Central and
Eastern |
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Which two cities were connected by the Pennsylvania Railway?
a. | Los Angeles and Tucson | c. | Pittsburgh and St. Louis | b. | Salt Lake City and
Omaha | d. | Atlanta and
Pittsburgh |
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What change does the map show between 1870 and 1890?
a. | Cleveland became a new center of rail transportation | c. | Railroads expanded greatly in the
West | b. | Omaha, Nebraska, was finally connected by rail to the East | d. | The Eastern time zone gained many more
railroads |
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Which time zone had the largest concentration of railways in 1890?
a. | Pacific | c. | Eastern | b. | Central | d. | Mountain |
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In 1870, how many railroads reached the West Coast?
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Into how many time zones is the continental United States divided?
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What is the time difference between Pacific and Eastern time?
a. | two hours | c. | three hours | b. | one hour | d. | four hours |
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What is the main idea of this cartoon?
a. | Ordinary people are not allowed in the Senate | c. | Owners of business monopolies
control the Senate | b. | The Senate is working for the people, not for
special interests. | d. | Senators
can be bribed for small amounts of money |
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What is the setting of this cartoon?
a. | the boardroom of a large corporation | c. | a railway station in a major
city | b. | the United States Senate | d. | a theater with a sold-out show |
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Which entrance to the Senate is closed?
a. | the monopolists' | c. | the senators' | b. | the people's | d. | the
president's |
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What group do the large men at the back of the room represent?
a. | typical American citizens | c. | labor
organizers | b. | very powerful senators | d. | wealthy monopolists |
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Who are the smaller men in the picture?
a. | industrialists | c. | U.S. senators | b. | railroad magnates | d. | mayors |
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What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act?
a. | to lower excessive railroad rates | c. | to increase the power of
railroads | b. | to build new railroads | d. | to destroy the railroad industry |
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Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?
a. | Industrialization | c. | hard work | b. | the accumulation of wealth | d. | government
regulation |
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Why was Pullman, Illinois, an unusual town?
a. | It owed its prosperity to the railroads | c. | It had one main
industry | b. | It specialized in a regional product | d. | It was built by a company to house its
workers |
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Which of the following resulted from the investigation of the Triangle
Shirtwaist fire?
a. | changes in local labor laws for women and children | c. | the adoption of equal wages for men
and women | b. | the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act | d. | the imprisonment of company
officials |
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Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
a. | They were part of management | c. | They were federal
troops | b. | They were workers used to break strikes | d. | They were
socialists |
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What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late
1800s?
a. | competition | c. | Monopolies | b. | interstate commerce | d. | corruption |
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What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
a. | new methods of making steel | c. | fire safety
standards | b. | the invention of the elevator | d. | cheap electric
power |
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In which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?
a. | Haymarket Square | c. | the Pullman factory | b. | Carnegie Steel's Homestead
Plant | d. | the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory |
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Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?
a. | African-American workers, both skilled and unskilled | c. | radical unionists and
socialists | b. | female workers in the dressmaking trade | d. | railroad workers, both skilled and
unskilled |
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Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their
factories away from rivers?
a. | electricity | c. | the telephone | b. | steel beams | d. | railroads |
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Matching
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Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each
description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
a. | trust | g. | Andrew Carnegie | b. | Mary Harris Jones | h. | vertical integration | c. | monopoly | i. | Eugene V. Debs | d. | Industrial Workers of the
World | j. | Sherman Antitrust
Act | e. | holding company | k. | American Federation of Labor | f. | Social
Darwinism |
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a corporation that does nothing but buy out the stock of other
companies
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process by which a company buys out all of its suppliers
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focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic
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supporter of the Great Strike on 1877 and organizer of the United Mine Workers
of America
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a market in which one company has complete control over an industry's
production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged
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formed the American Railway Union
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theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government
interference in big business
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organized in Chicago, 1905, by a group of radical unionists and
socialists
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millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry
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35.
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a corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling
them to dividends on profits earned
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made it illegal for corporations to interfere with free interstate or
international trade
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Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each
description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than
once.
a. | Edwin L. Drake | d. | Thomas Alva Edison | b. | Henry Bessemer | e. | Alexander Graham Bell | c. | Christopher
Sholes |
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invented the typewriter
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introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's
surface
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perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park,
New Jersey
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invented the telephone
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developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and
organized power plants around the nation
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developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel
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Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each
description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once. (4 points
each)
a. | Edwin L. Drake | f. | Mary Harris "Mother" Jones | b. | Eugene V.
Debs | g. | George M.
Pullman | c. | Christopher Sholes | h. | Alexander Graham Bell | d. | John D. Rockefeller | i. | Andrew Carnegie | e. | Thomas Alva
Edison | j. | Henry
Bessemer |
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invented the typewriter
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ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a
socialist
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first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the
earth's surface
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organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to fight for better
working conditions
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perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and
organized power plants
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created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of
the Standard Oil Company
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opened the way for worldwide communications with invention of the
telephone
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railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees
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51.
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Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his
profits
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52.
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developed a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel
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