Industrialization and the Gilded Age - Test Test

Question 1

What does the graph tell you about the balance of income during the late 1800s?

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D: Most people did not earn more than $1,200 in a year.

Question 2

How did the railroads impact the relationship between eastern cities and the Great Plains?

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C: Railroads brought crops and food to cities in the East, and settlers to farms in the Great Plains.

Question 3

The growth of business led to the development of a new type of business organization called the corporation. Which of these was a characteristic of a corporation?

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D: None of the company’s stockholders was legally responsible if the company went bankrupt.

Question 4

Which statement describes an effect of urbanization?

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B: The middle class grew in cities.

Question 5

Which of these characterizes child labor in the 1800s?

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C: Children performed physical labor for long hours each day.

Question 6

Which of these statements best describes why it was difficult for many immigrants to find employment in the US in the late 1800s?

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A: They were discriminated against by potential employers.

Question 7

What was the main reason that Carnegie invested in the Frick Coke Company?

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A: He wanted to make sure he could always get fuel for his steel plant.

Question 8

The majority of people who immigrated to America in the late 1800s and early 1900s

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C: worked at challenging jobs in the cities.

Question 9

The majority of immigrants and rural migrants who moved to American cities at the turn of the twentieth century became part of the

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A: working poor.

Question 10

Which of these groups became the main residents of the inner city during the Gilded Age?

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C: the working poor

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