Workers in the Industrial Era

Question 1

Which of the following best describes the scope of social reform movements during the Gilded Age?

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Reform movements aimed to organize labor unions and worked for child labor laws, safety in the workplace, and women’s suffrage.

Question 2

During the Gilded Age, people who worked in factories

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had to work long hours.

Question 3

How did shoemaking change during the Gilded Age?

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In 1800, shoes were made by hand. In 1900, shoes were being mass-produced in factories.

Question 4

During the Gilded Age, industrialists got rich as the price of manufacturing products

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decreased because more products were made rapidly by machines.

Question 5

During the Gilded Age, the shift to a system of mass production that paid workers low wages affected

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men, women, and children.

Question 6

What is one way that the system of mass production generally affected families?

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Instead of working together at home, families worked in factories.

Question 7

The system of mass production in manufacturing developed rapidly

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during the Gilded Age.

Question 8

How did Jan Matzeliger change the shoemaking industry in the 1800s?

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Attaching the top of the shoe to the sole was laborious, so Matzeliger invented the lasting machine.

Question 9

Look at the graph. Which answer best interprets the information shown in the graph?

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The largest number of women worked as farmers or domestic laborers.

Question 10

The new system of production during the Second Industrial Revolution meant that unskilled workers did

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repetitive tasks for many hours.

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