US 10-2 Section Quiz 10-2

an informal political group designed to gain and keep power

• political machine
• skyscrapers
• horsecar

invented the electric trolley car

• Jacob Riis
• Frank J. Sprague

documented slum life in the book How the Other Half Lives

• Jacob Riis
• Frank J. Sprague

a railroad car pulled by horses

• skyscrapers
• horsecar
• political machine

tall steel frame buildings

• skyscrapers
• horsecar
• political machine

What was the famous New York Democratic political machine called?

• Tammany Hall
• Tammany Tweed
• Thomas Pendergast Machine
• William M. Tweed Hall

No one contributed more to the design of skyscrapers than Chicago’s

• Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Potter Palmer.
• Louis Sullivan.
• Frank J. Sprague.

America’s industrialization not only made some people wealthy; it also helped create a growing

• tenement system.
• middle class.
• agricultural system.
• political machine.

To alleviate congestion in city streets, Chicago built an elevated railroad, and both Boston and New York built the first

• trolley cars.
• tunnels.
• overpasses.
• subway systems.

Who rose to be one of New York’s most powerful party bosses?

• Thomas Pendergast
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• George Plunkitt
• Zalmen Yoffeh