Review Chapters 19/20
Materials to Study:
1. Reading from the book- Chapters 19 and 20
2. Class Notes
a. Railroad
b. Ads and Stores
c. Mark Twain
d. Presidents (Hayes-Harrison)
e. McKinley or Bryan
f. Gold Standard
g. Political Machines
h. Social Darwinism and Evangelical Thought
3. Worksheets
a. Inventors Chart
b. Union Research Guide
Vocabulary:
Pool
Stock
Trust
Monopoly
Union
Tenement
The Gilded Age
Settlement house
Other
Haymarket Riots
Pullman Strike
Reformers
City Gospel
Social Darwinism
Evangelical Thought
People
Vanderbilt
Cyrus Field
John Rockefeller
George Westinghouse
Edwin L. Drake
Thomas Edison
Henry Bessemer
Andrew Carnegie
William J. Bryan
Mark Hanna
Charles Guiteau
Chester Arthur
Rutherford Hayes
James Garfield
Grover Cleveland
Alexander Graham Bell
George Pullman
Mark Twain
Text Reading
Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1.The practice of combining several companies in an industry is called
a. rebate.
b. monopoly.
c. consolidation.
d. philanthropy.
2.The inventor of the railroad sleeping car was
a. Eli H. Janney.
b. Gustavus Swift.
c. George Westinghouse.
d. George M. Pullman.
3.This inventor received more than 1,000 patents in his lifetime.
a. Thomas Alva Edison
b. Granville Woods
c. Henry Ford
d. George Westinghouse
4.This steel company owner was a great philanthropist.
a. Granville Woods
b. Gustavus Swift
c. Andrew Carnegie
d. Cyrus Field
5.After the failure of this strike, the steelworkers' union dwindled.
a. Pullman Strike
b. Homestead Strike
c. Railroad Strike of 1877
d. Haymarket Strike
6.Railroad barons were created because the industry
a. concentrated.
b. condensed.
c. consolidated.
d. collated.
7.This man invented the telephone.
a. George Westinghouse
b. Thomas Alva Edison
c. Cyrus Field
d. Alexander Graham Bell
8.This man's research lab was the country's first industrial research laboratory.
a. Thomas Alva Edison
b. Henry Ford
c. Alexander Graham Bell
d. George Westinghouse
9.This led to the creation of a multimillion-dollar petroleum industry.
a. electricity
b. air travel
c. railroads
d. Edwin L. Drake's well
10.This philanthropist built more than 2,000 libraries worldwide.
a. George Westinghouse
b. Andrew Carnegie
c. Henry Ford
d. John D. Rockefeller
11.Child-labor laws did not apply to this industry, which employed about 1 million children.
a. textile
b. steel
c. agriculture
d. mining
12.Economic troubles and this condition drove people to emigrate.
a. high cost of housing
b. weather
c. ethnic group persecution
d. poor schools
13.It took immigrants this long to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
a. 12 days
b. 60 days
c. 30 days
d. 10 days
14.Most Asian immigrants went through the processing center on
a. Ellis Island.
b. Harbor Island.
c. Statue of Liberty Island.
d. Angel Island.
15.This person designed New York's Central Park and several parks in Boston.
a. Jane Addams
b. Frederick Law Olmsted
c. Jacob Riis
d. Louis Sullivan
16.This person argued that schools should relate learning to the interests, problems, and concerns of
students.
a. Jane Addams
b. John Dewey
c. Booker T. Washington
d. Joseph Pulitzer
17.This man wrote How the Other Half Lives, a book that showed the terrible conditions of the
tenements.
a. Louis Sullivan
b. Charles Dudley Warner
c. Jacob Riis
d. Mark Twain
18.This writer described the joys and sorrows of the upper-class Easterners.
a. Mark Twain
b. Edith Wharton
c. Paul Laurence Dunbar
d. Stephen Crane
19.This American artist painted stormy sea scenes.
a. Thomas Eakins
b. James Whistler
c. Mary Cassatt
d. Winslow Homer
20.These were the beginning of today's multimillion-dollar film industry.
a. nickelodeons
b. film shows
c. "moving pictures"
d. radio programs