Friday, January 11, 2013

Unit Exam Study Guide

Immigration
1)Main processing station in New York
 Answer: Angel Inland
2)Immigrants in the 1870's arrived via what mode of transportation?
 Answer: Steamship
3)What law was enacted to decrease Chinese immigration to U.S.?
 Answer: Chinese Exclusion Act
4)New immigrants move here because it was cheap and a lot jobs.
 Answer: Cities
5)The main purpose of American movement was to
 Answer: Assimilate immigrants into the dominant 'American Culture'
Industrialization
6)
 Answer: False
7)What would best reduce monopolies and trust? Consolidation, competition,
 Answer: Competition
8)The new metal allowed the U.S. to make skyscrapers and new forms of constructions?
 Answer: Steel
9)The Smaller men in the room are:
 Answer: United States Senators
10)These people were used to break labor strikes by working for less money.
 Answer: Scabs
Factories and working people there
11)Upton Sinclair wrote his book on what industry?
Answer: Meat Packing Industry
12)What technology most allowed factories to locate away from rivers?
Answer: Electricity
13)An old apartment usually occupied by poor people was called a
Answer: Tenement
14)Settlement houses helped new immigrants assimilate. Who made these houses: reformers, politicians, workers?
Answer: Social reformers
15)Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle was responsible for this law.
Answer: The Meat Inspection Act
Hodge Podge
16)
Answer:
17)Patronage is: a bribe, not doing what you say, putting a friend into a job
Answer: Putting a friend into a job
18)Tammany Hall was a famous: Immigration Processing Station, New York Political Machine,
Answer: New York Political Machine
19)The illegal use of political power for personal gain is: nativism, graft, social darwinism
Answer: Graft
20)Which industry would most benefit by standardized time zones: telegraph, railroad, construction
Answer: Railroads to help train travelers
Leaders or Villains?
 21)
Answer:
22)The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was infamous for what?
Answer: A shameful fire that killed 146 women
23)Industrial Workers of the World (WWI) was organized by
Answer: Radical unionists, socialist 
24)The Gentleman's Agreement did what?
Answer: Decreased Japanese immigration and/or desegregated San Francisco classrooms
25)The Sherman Antitrust Act was created to do what?
Answer:Outlaw trusts and monopolies that interfered with competition

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