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9-10 Industrialism
Spalding Academy 10th Grade 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Settling a dispute by agreeing to accepts the decision of an impartial outsider | Arbitration |
| An organization that is authorized by law to carry on an activity but treated as though it were a single person | Corporation |
| A decline in the volume of available money or credit that results in lower prices, an, therefore, increases the buying power of money | Deflation |
| One who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise | Entrepreneur |
| Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation’s economy | Laissez-faire |
| Total control of a type of industry by one person/company | Monopoly |
| A preference for native-born people and a desire to limit immigration | Nativism |
| Providing money to support humanitarian or social goals | Philanthropy |
| An approach to literature, art, and theater that attempts to accurately portray things as they really are and holds that society will function best if left to itself | Realism |
| Multi-family apartments, usually dark, crowded, and barley meeting minimum living standards | Tenement |
| An organization of employees who join together to collectively bargain with the employer for higher wages, better working conditions, and shorter hours | Union |
| Stage entertainment made up of various acts, such as dancing, singing, comedy, and magic shows | Vaudeville |
| Invented the electric light bulb | Thomas Edison |
| Robberbaron of the oil industry | J.D. Rockefeller |
| Robberbaron of the steel industry; later became a philanthropist and wrote Gospel of Wealth | Andrew Carnegie |
| Leader of the Pullman strike | Eugene Debs |
| Robberbaron of the financial industry; consolidated many companies through horizontal integration | J.P. Morgan |
| Bought every railroad in NY and build Grand Central Station | Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Proposed the theory of evolution and natural selection in his book On the Origin of Species | Charles Darwin |
| Built Hull House in Chicago and sought better working conditions for the poor | Jane Addams |
| T/F The Nativism movement targeted immigrants from Ireland, Asians, Jews, and Eastern Europe. | True |
| T/F The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882 to restrict immigration of all Asian immigrants. | False |
| T/F Robberbarons were generous and moral businessmen in the 1880s | False |
| T/F After the Civil War, the West had most of the nation’s railroads | False |
| T/F The “Americanization” efforts extended not only to Native Americans during this time period, but also to immigrants as well. | True |
| T/F Between 1860 and 1900, the government heavily regulated big businesses | False |
| T/F The Social Darwinism movement based around the idea of “survival of the wealthiest.” | False |
| T/F Tenements were dark, crowded, and often contained several families in each of the apartments. | True |
| Which port of entry would most European immigrants enter through between1860-1900? A) Angel Island, B) Murphy Island, C) Ellis Island, D) Humphrey Island | C) Ellis Island |
| The majority of the Chinese immigrants worked: A) In the mines, B) In the kitchens, C) In the banks, D) In laundries | D) in the laundries |
| Which port of entry would most Asian immigrants enter through between 1860-1900? A) Angel Island, B) Ellis Island, C) Murphy Island, D) Humphrey Island | A) Angel Island |
| Which of the following was NOT a natural resource that helped the US industrialize? A) Coal, B) Copper, C) Water, D) Gas | D) Gas |
| The “Guilded Age” was a term used to make fun of what? A) The golden details on the skyscrapers, B) The opulence of the upper-class, C) Rockefeller’s gold watch, D) The bust of the gold mining in the West | B) The opulence of the upper-class |
| A benefit of a national railway system is: A) Standard rail sizes, B) Time zones, C) United people from other regions, D) All of the above | D) All of the above |
| ___________________ is the myth that you can rise in society no matter where you came from (if you were poor, an immigrant, etc). A) Guilded Age Theory, B) Eugenics, C) Individualism, D) Communitarianism | C) Individualism |
| Name of the 1886 Chicago riot in which an anarchist threw a bomb into the crowd. German immigrants blamed and arrested. A) Haymarket Riot, B) Boston Massacre, C) Railroad Riot D) Pullman Strike | A) Haymarket Riot |
| YMCA originally started as what? A) Support group for men, B) support group for urban poor, C) recreation place for kids, D) support group for women | A) support group for men |
| When was the 1st skyscraper built? A) 1868, B) 1858, C) 1885, D) 1888 | C) 1885 |
| Those who opposed Social Darwinism were often a part of which political movement? A) Socialism, B) eugenics, C) poverty, D) naturalism | A) Socialism |
| Social Darwinism led to the ___________ movement which, among other things, strongly advocated for the “breeding” of only the best and brightest people in the U.S.: A) eugenics, B) sterilization, C) individualism, D) evolution | A) Eugenics |
| Describe the struggles that led to the creation of unions. Why did they have a difficult time gaining recognition and having their demands met? | Wanted shorter hours, no child labor, fair wages, safe working conditions. Companies blacklist them. Gov’t doesn’t help. Workers thought to be socialist. Strikes turn violent (Haymarket Riot) |
| Choose 1 of the following movements and describe: Social Darwinism, Nativism, Industrialization, Individualism, Eugenics, Reform Age | Include date, important people, beliefs, causes, effects |
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