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Industrial Revolution Review
Test Description: #5th grade SC social studies
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1) The immigrants overcame many prejudices by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
A
Giving up all their old customs and ways of life from their home countries.
B
providing customs and foods that became part of the American culture
C
Becoming educated.
D
obtaining productive jobs
2) Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller developed business practices that let them take total control of a specific industry. This practice was called
A
urbanization
B
labor unions
C
monopoly
D
technology
3) Why was Theodore Roosevelt convinced that he must break up trusts?
A
Trusts were driving out competition and charging unfair prices
B
Trusts weren’t making enough money.
C
He was afraid of the Progressives.
D
He felt leaders of trusts would eventually drive him out of office.
4) Which is one of the many challenges urban areas faced as a result of an increase in population?
A
Cities became overcrowded and diseases spread rapidly.
B
There was less pollution in the cities.
C
There was a decrease in the amount of crime.
D
The air became cleaner to breathe.
5) What condition DID NOT lead to the rise of labor unions?
A
People worked only six hours a day
B
Workers labored in unsafe and unhealthy conditions.
C
Many workers earned low wages.
D
Many factories were nothing more than hot, cramped workshops.
6) How did immigrants help America’s economy?
A
They would save up all the money to send back to their native countries.
B
A. They donated money to help our economy.
C
B. Some immigrants became entrepreneurs who promoted economic growth.
D
C. They brought a lot of money from their homeland that they spent on American products to help our economy.
7) What was one of the main reasons many people disliked immigrants coming to America?
A
B. They took any job for any pay.
B
They brought strange foods from their countries
C
C. They were needed to help develop the country.
D
A. They couldn’t speak English.
8) Why did many immigrants settle in cities on the east coast?
A
They were tired of traveling
B
They didn't have the money to travel west or purchase land.
C
they were afraid of the Native Americans
D
They didn't know any people living in the West.
9) Immigrants left their countries to come to the United States for all of these reasons EXCEPT:
A
Religious freedom
B
to face discrimination
C
Economic opportunities
D
Poverty and wars
10) Jim Crow Laws were created to:
A
Provide educational opportunities for all races.
B
Enforce integration among ethnic groups.
C
Protect the rights of individuals that were provided by the Constitution
D
Legalize racial segregation.
11) Plessy vs. Ferguson was a land mark case that ruled:
A
Blacks and whites were equal.
B
Blacks and whites should share the same facilities.
C
Blacks and whites should receive the same quality education.
D
If facilities were equal, then it was legal to keep the races separate.
12) How did electricity change business in the United States?
A
Every American could afford electricity for their home.
B
Electricity was immediately available to all US citizens.
C
Stores and factories could stay open longer, to make more products and money.
D
C. Homes need more candles because the electricity was not always reliable.
13) Why did immigrants often live in communities with others from their home country? (5-3.3)
A
Integration of communities were illegal at the time.
B
Signs were posted to enforce territorial boundaries.
C
It helped to make adjusting to life in America easier.
D
They were forced to live in certain areas within the cities.
14) Who developed the Bessemer process which converted iron into steel?
A
Lewis latimer
B
John D. Rockefeller
C
Thomas Edison
D
Andrew Carnegie
15) What impact did availability of electricity have upon the homes in the late 1800s?
A
It led to the invention of such things as washing machines and vacuum cleaners.
B
The telegraph was a popular device used in more homes.
C
Fewer homes needed electricity.
D
none of these
16) The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell, improved communication and replaced which of the following?
A
the plow
B
the cell phone
C
the telegraph
D
The skyscraper
17) How did the US economy change after Reconstruction? (5-3.1)
A
More people moved to the country because of overcrowding
B
The US became a manufacturing and production country.
C
Farmers produced more crops.
D
Trade was important to the US.
18) The case, Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896, went to trial because of the denial of which amendment?
A
The 21st Amendment ended nationwide prohibition of alcohol
B
The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, sale and manufacture of alcohol.
C
The 14th Amendment granted equal citizenship to all Americans.
D
The 15th Amendment granted the right to vote to men of all races.
19) How did new methods of mass production contribute to the Industrial Revolution?
A
Businesses used sharecropping to increase the production of goods
B
New products were all made by hand
C
Cities became ghost towns because machines replaced manual labor
D
By creating products quickly and cheaply
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