Industrial Revolution Test Review 2

The rise of corporations, heavy industry, mechanized farming and technological innovations transformed the American economy from an agrarian to an increasingly urban industrial society. Select all of the jobs that demonstrate how industrialization in the United States led to the creation of new employment opportunities in urban areas.

• Jobs operating machines
• Jobs creating machines used for farming
• Jobs that involved farming by hand
• Jobs that involved making tools by hand
• Jobs that involved construction of houses and factories

You have been assigned to write a paper on the changes related to the increase in industrial production in the United States in the late 1800s. Choose TWO topics that would be appropriate to include in your paper.

• Growth in immigration to the United States.
• Reduction in manual labor force.
• Demand for cheaper labor.
• Increase in agricultural workers.
• Reduction in railroad construction opportunities.

The Rise of industrialization during the 19th century produced various social effects. Choose the best TWO answers that explain the issues that led to workers going on strike.

• Workers seek higher wages.
• Workers become uninterested in politics.
• Greater portion of the workforce emigrates from the United States.
• Workers wish to protect rights.

What major population trend occurred in the United States during the industrial expansion of the late 19th century?

• the number of people living on farms increased
• the migration from cities to rural areas grew
• the flow of immigration to the United States decreased
• the size and number of cities increased dramatically

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, many changes occurred in U.S. agriculture as a result of industrialization. Which is one way industrialization affected agriculture?

• It decreased the amount of land available for cultivation.
• It reduced the amount of labor needed to grow crops.
• It decreased opportunities to grow a variety of crops.
• It delayed the transportation of crops to market.

In the late 1800s, the homestead steel strike and the Pullman rail-car strike were unsuccessful mainly as a result of

• the government supporting business owners
• most workers refused to take part in the strike
• the Supreme Court ruled both strikes were illegal
• factory owners hired children to replace the strikers

In the early 1900s, a major goal of the American Federation of Labor was to

• end restrictions on child labor
• admit women to the nation's industrial workforce
• improve wages and working conditions for laborers
• join all workers into a single union of factory workers

Between 1870 and 1900, industrialization in the United States led to working conditions that labor unions opposed. Identify all the demands made by labor unions to change working conditions.

• Short work days
• Higher wages
• Safer working conditions
• More paid vacations
• Better health care

The opportunity for individuals to gain partial ownership through investing benefits a company in what way?

• Increased opportunity to expand production
• Decreased production
• Increased government investment
• Increased child labor

A cause of industrialization was the invention of the steam engine; which of the following best describes a long term effect of industrialization?

• The United States changed from a communist society to a capitalist society.
• The United States changed from an urban to a rural society.
• The United States changed from a capitalist society to a communist society.
• The United States changed from an agricultural society to a manufacturing society.