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Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 
 
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 1. 
How many hours separate Central and Eastern time?
a.
one
c.
five
b.
three
d.
four
 

 2. 
Which West Coast city was connected to the East by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific
Railways?
a.
Seattle
c.
San Francisco
b.
Los Angeles
d.
Portland
 

 3. 
Which railway connected Butte and Minneapolis?
a.
Great Northern
c.
Illinois Central
b.
Union Pacific
d.
Northern Pacific
 

 4. 
In which time zones were railroads concentrated in 1870?
a.
Pacific and Mountain
c.
Central and Pacific
b.
Mountain and Central
d.
Central and Eastern
 

 5. 
Which two cities were connected by the Pennsylvania Railway?
a.
Los Angeles and Tucson
c.
Pittsburgh and St. Louis
b.
Salt Lake City and Omaha
d.
Atlanta and Pittsburgh
 

 6. 
What change does the map show between 1870 and 1890?
a.
Cleveland became a new center of rail transportation
c.
Railroads expanded greatly in the West
b.
Omaha, Nebraska, was finally connected by rail to the East
d.
The Eastern time zone gained many more railroads
 

 7. 
Which time zone had the largest concentration of railways in 1890?
a.
Pacific
c.
Eastern
b.
Central
d.
Mountain
 

 8. 
In 1870, how many railroads reached the West Coast?
a.
two
c.
four
b.
one
d.
three
 

 9. 
Into how many time zones is the continental United States divided?
a.
one
c.
two
b.
four
d.
three
 

 10. 
What is the time difference between Pacific and Eastern time?
a.
two hours
c.
 three hours
b.
one hour
d.
four hours
 
 
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 11. 
What is the main idea of this cartoon?
a.
Ordinary people are not allowed in the Senate
c.
Owners of business monopolies control the Senate
b.
The Senate is working for the people, not for special interests.
d.
Senators can be bribed for small amounts of money
 

 12. 
What is the setting of this cartoon?
a.
the boardroom of a large corporation
c.
a railway station in a major city
b.
the United States Senate
d.
a theater with a sold-out show
 

 13. 
Which entrance to the Senate is closed?
a.
the monopolists'
c.
 the senators'
b.
 the people's
d.
the president's
 

 14. 
What group do the large men at the back of the room represent?
a.
typical American citizens
c.
labor organizers
b.
very powerful senators
d.
wealthy monopolists
 

 15. 
Who are the smaller men in the picture?
a.
industrialists
c.
U.S. senators
b.
railroad magnates
d.
mayors
 

 16. 
What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act?
a.
to lower excessive railroad rates
c.
to increase the power of railroads
b.
to build new railroads
d.
 to destroy the railroad industry
 

 17. 
Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?
a.
Industrialization
c.
hard work
b.
 the accumulation of wealth
d.
government regulation
 

 18. 
Why was Pullman, Illinois, an unusual town?
a.
 It owed its prosperity to the railroads
c.
It had one main industry
b.
 It specialized in a regional product
d.
 It was built by a company to house its workers
 

 19. 
Which of the following resulted from the investigation of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire?
a.
changes in local labor laws for women and children
c.
the adoption of equal wages for men and women
b.
 the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act
d.
the imprisonment of company officials
 

 20. 
Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
a.
They were part of management
c.
They were federal troops
b.
They were workers used to break strikes
d.
They were socialists
 

 21. 
What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late 1800s?
a.
competition
c.
Monopolies
b.
interstate commerce
d.
corruption
 

 22. 
What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
a.
new methods of making steel
c.
fire safety standards
b.
the invention of the elevator
d.
cheap electric power
 

 23. 
In which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?
a.
Haymarket Square
c.
the Pullman factory
b.
Carnegie Steel's Homestead Plant
d.
the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
 

 24. 
Who organized the Industrial Workers of the World?
a.
African-American workers, both skilled and unskilled
c.
 radical unionists and socialists
b.
female workers in the dressmaking trade
d.
railroad workers, both skilled and unskilled
 

 25. 
Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?
a.
electricity
c.
the telephone
b.
steel beams
d.
railroads
 

Matching
 
 
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
a.
trust
g.
Andrew Carnegie
b.
Mary Harris Jones
h.
vertical integration
c.
monopoly
i.
Eugene V. Debs
d.
Industrial Workers of the World
j.
Sherman Antitrust Act
e.
holding company
k.
American Federation of Labor
f.
Social Darwinism
 

 26. 

 a corporation that does nothing but buy out the stock of other companies
 

 27. 

 process by which a company buys out all of its suppliers
 

 28. 

 focused on collective bargaining and used strikes as a major tactic
 

 29. 

 supporter of the Great Strike on 1877 and organizer of the United Mine Workers of America
 

 30. 

 a market in which one company has complete control over an industry's production, quality, wages paid, and prices charged
 

 31. 

 formed the American Railway Union
 

 32. 

 theory that justified the efforts of millionaires and discouraged government interference in big business
 

 33. 

 organized in Chicago, 1905, by a group of radical unionists and socialists
 

 34. 

 millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry
 

 35. 

 a corporation made up of many companies that receive certificates entitling them to dividends on profits earned
 

 36. 

 made it illegal for corporations to interfere with free interstate or international trade
 
 
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once.
a.
Edwin L. Drake
d.
Thomas Alva Edison
b.
Henry Bessemer
e.
 Alexander Graham Bell
c.
Christopher Sholes
 

 37. 

 invented the typewriter
 

 38. 

 introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil from beneath the earth's surface
 

 39. 

 perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey
 

 40. 

 invented the telephone
 

 41. 

 developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation
 

 42. 

 developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel
 
 
Select the letter of the term, name, or phrase that best matches each description. Note: Some letters may not be used at all. Some may be used more than once. (4 points each)
a.
Edwin L. Drake
f.
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
b.
Eugene V. Debs
g.
George M. Pullman
c.
Christopher Sholes
h.
Alexander Graham Bell
d.
John D. Rockefeller
i.
Andrew Carnegie
e.
Thomas Alva Edison
j.
Henry Bessemer
 

 43. 

 invented the typewriter
 

 44. 

 ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist
 

 45. 

 first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth's surface
 

 46. 

 organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to fight for better working conditions
 

 47. 

 perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants
 

 48. 

 created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company
 

 49. 

 opened the way for worldwide communications with invention of the telephone
 

 50. 

 railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees
 

 51. 

 Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits
 

 52. 

 developed a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel
 



 
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