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Gilded Age Review
Test Description: Gilded Age Review for Quest
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1) All are factors of mass production except what?
A
Competition
B
Assembly Line
C
Interchangeable parts
D
Division of Labor
2) A government that avoids getting involved in business is said to be
A
Laissez-Faire
B
lazy
C
corrupt
D
liberal
3) What best describes the benefits of competition or how it helps the consumer?
A
Maintains high quality of goods
B
Increase consumers' choices
C
All of the above
D
Keep prices low
4) Factories were given what nickname:
A
Mills
B
Mills
C
Sweatshops
D
Slave houses
5) One of the first significant unions in America that accepted members from diverse ethnic backgrounds, jobs and social classes was called:
A
Knights of Labor
B
United Mine Workers
C
Teamsters
D
American Federation of Labor
6) City organizations that emerge to provide help to immigrants, offer safe water, waste disposal and protection, but were often corrupt were called:
A
Settlement Houses
B
The Graft
C
Political Machines
D
Populists
7) Trusts and monopolies are bad for the consumers because they eliminate:
A
Competition
B
High prices
C
New inventions
D
Trusts
8) If you own a portion of a corporation, you own:
A
Trust
B
Stock
C
Profit
D
Dividends
9) Samuel Gompers led the _______ while Terrence Powederly led the ________________.
A
AFL and Knights of Labor
B
Knights of Labor and AFL
C
Knights of Labor and I.W.W.
D
I.W.W. and AFL
10) What were people hired by factory owners to replace striking workers called?
A
Dregs
B
Scabs
C
Thugs
D
Grunts
11) Breaking up of a job into individual tasks is called
A
the division of labor
B
Skilled Craftsmanship
C
interchangable parts
D
Mass Production
12) The belief held by many wealthy owners in America that God had granted wealth to them was known as
A
The Gospel of Wealth
B
Laissez-Faire Economics
C
Natural Selection
D
The Sacred Fortune
13) The Haymarket riot was
A
A steel workers' strike turned violent in Western PA
B
A farmers' protest against the dropping prices of agriculutral goods
C
The public's angry reaction to dangerous working conditions in sweatshops
D
A riot between striking workers and police, sparked by a bomb that killed police officers
14) The following are typical grievances of workers in the Gilded Age except
A
Low Wages
B
No benefits
C
Long Hours
D
Por working conditions
15) In an effort to eliminate 'trouble makers' from the work force owners distributed
A
Redlists
B
Blacklists
C
Thug Lists
D
Pamphlets
16) All of the following were effects that mass production had upon society except
A
Decreased the prices of certain products
B
Decreased the need for skilled craftsman
C
increased immigration
D
increased quality of life for workers
17) Social Darwinism can best be described as
A
Justification which the Captains of Industry used to explain the explotation of workers
B
The theory of the 'survival of the fittest' as it applies to society
C
Justification which the Captains of Industry used to explain the removal of the Indians
D
Immigrants' desire to evolve into the modern Amwerican society
18) Capitalism is based on the principle of
A
Supply and Demand
B
Government control of business
C
Monopolies and Trusts
D
Laissez-Faire economics, government should stay out
19) What group of immigrants was discriminated against greatly and offically excluded from America in 1882
A
Russian Jews
B
Irish
C
Chinese
D
Italians
20) The fear or hatred of foreigners is known as
A
Discrimination
B
Prejudice
C
Xenophobia
D
Stereotyping
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