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