Industrialism Test

Question 1

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 1

Invested in steel

Question 2

John D Rockefeller

Answer 2

Oil industry, wealthiest of all time

Question 3

Mary Harris “mother” jones

Answer 3

Teacher and dressmaker, helped coordinate major strikes- children’s march- most dangerous women in America

Question 4

Eugene V Debs

Answer 4

American union leader, socialist party candidate

Question 5

Henry Bessemer

Answer 5

Invented steel process that was much cheaper and faster

Question 6

Thomas Alva Edison

Answer 6

Invented light bulb, phonograph, motion picture camera

Question 7

Alexander Graham Bell

Answer 7

Inventor- first telephone

Question 8

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 8

Populist position, cowardly lion, golf speech

Question 9

Dawes act

Answer 9

A law that a tribe couldn’t own reservation lands as a group

Question 10

Exodusters

Answer 10

African-American migrants to new places

Question 11

Populists

Answer 11

People who follow a philosophy that favors the common person over wealthy people

Question 12

Homestead act

Answer 12

Provided Pieces of land to settlers in the west

Question 13

Transcontinental RR

Answer 13

A railroad that spanned the continent

Question 14

Pacific Railway act

Answer 14

Series of acts of Congress that promoted construction of trans continental railroad

Question 15

Vertical integration

Answer 15

A company that owns all parts of the process

Question 16

Horizontal integration

Answer 16

Controls all companies selling a certain product

Question 17

Social Darwinism

Answer 17

Survival of the fittest, discourages government regulation

Question 18

Interstate commerce act

Answer 18

Required rates must be “reasonable and just”, didn’t fix specific rates

Question 19

Urbanization

Answer 19

Population shift from rural to urban

Question 20

American Federation of labor

Answer 20

National Federation of labor unions

Question 21

Haymarket affair

Answer 21

The aftermath of a bombing at Haymarket Square in Chicago, labor demonstration

Question 22

Homestead strike

Answer 22

Strike at Homestead steel works

Question 23

Pullman strike

Answer 23

Railroad strike against pullman company

Question 24

Labor movement

Answer 24

Labor unions fought for better wages, hours, and working conditions

Question 25

Gilded age

Answer 25

Serious social problems that didn’t look bad from the outside

Question 26

Ellis island

Answer 26

New York immigration

Question 27

Angel Island

Answer 27

California immigration, San Francisco

Question 28

Chinese exclusion act

Answer 28

Prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers

Question 29

Steerage Passengers

Answer 29

Had to go through inspection at Ellis island, poor people

Question 30

Railroad strike of 1877

Answer 30

First time government had to break a strike

Question 31

What did Carnegie do to separate himself?

Answer 31

Bought our suppliers and competitors

Question 32

Bimetallism

Answer 32

Money in exchange for golf and silver, put more money into circulation

Question 33

What did trusts do?

Answer 33

Got rid of competition

Question 34

Monopoly

Answer 34

A company completely dominates an industry