Urbanization, Industrialization and Immigration review

Match the following

• connected the US as one nation

• Transcontinental Railroad

• invented the light bulb

• Ellis Island

• controlled the oil industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• immigration center near NYC

• Thomas Edison

• controlled steel industry

• John Rockefeller

Match the following

• Help immigrants fit in

• Americanization movement

• restricted immigration from China

• Captains of Industry

• survival of the fittest in society

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• took advantage of workers

• Robber Barons

• helped economy grow by providing jobs

• social Darwinism

Which best reflects the impact of the Bessemer Process

• allowed oil to be refined cheaply

• allowed steel to be made more efficiently

• created stronger iron

• was a new harvesting machine for farmers

All of the following factors contributed to the great industrial boom of the early 1900s except

• a wealth of natural resources

• government support for business

• a growing urban population

• the crash of the stock market

Which statement about the US economic growth is true?

• economy shift from agriculture to industry

• federal gov. did not support the growth of economy

• immigration did not help the economy grow

• people preferred to make their own clothing at home

Which of the following would be an example of patronage?

• giving a friend a political job

• assassinating a public official

• voting twice in the same election

• bribing a government official

When a company has complete control over an industry, it has created a...

• merger

• corporation

• dividend

• monopoly

Why does Carnegie and Rockefeller have a mixed reputation?

• some of their businesses failed and some succeeded

• help country grow but also cheated workers

• hired workers but refused to hire women

• built factories but also destroyed the environment

The main immigration processing station in San Francisco Bay is called?

• Ellis Island

• Tammany Hall

• Angel Island

• Hull House

The "Old Immigrants", or immigrants who arrived before 1900 to the U.S. came from ?

• Asia

• South America

• Europe

• The West Indies