INDUSTRIALIZATION TO PROGRESSIVISM TEST STUDY GUIDE
1. As a result of industrialization, what happened to the population in cities?
2. What is urbanization? How did it impact cities?
3. What is mechanized farming and how did it impact agriculture?
4. In your own words, discuss three major changes which occurred in the United States in
the late 19th century during the period of immigration.
5. How did assembly lines impact industrialization? How did it impact the price of goods?
6. Discuss one new technology of industrialization and its impact on society
7. What caused a rise in immigration during the period of industrialization?
8. Why did factory owners prefer to hire immigrant workers?
9. Why were cities an attractive place for immigrants and people who migrated north in
early 20th century?
10. What were labor unions and why were they needed during the period of industrialization?
11. Discuss at least three problems in working environments addressed by labor unions.
12. How can unionized workers show their unhappiness?
13. What was the overall result of the Great Railroad Strike, the Haymarket Riot, and the
Homestead and Pullman Strikes?
14. Discuss the overall impact of urbanization on cities in the early 20th century.
15. What was the Great Migration?
16. Why did the Great Migration occur? In other words, why did these people migrate?
17. How did the Great Migration change urban areas?
18. Define the term commerce.
19. In your own words, describe the physical nature of urbanized areas in the 20th century.
20. What were tenement buildings and what problem of industrialization did they attempt to
solve?
21. Advancements in what industry allowed people to move to suburbs?
22. What is meant by the term Reconstruction and how did it apply to the south following the
Civil War?
23. What were Jim Crow Laws? How did they change society in the south?
24. What was the overall result of the Supreme Court Case Plessy vs. Ferguson?
25. What is nativism and why did it occur in the early 20th century?
26. Discuss the beliefs of the Populist Party. How was populism originally started?
27. Who were muckrakers and how did they contribute to the rise of Progressivism?
28. What happened as a result of the Federal Reserve Act? What is the role of the Federal
Reserve?
29. How did the 19th Amendment change life in America?
30. Define suffrage.
31. What is antitrust legislation? Why was this important to Progressive reformers?
32. The U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and the Newlands Act were developed
and proposed the need for?
33. Did the Progressive Movement make the political process more or less democratic? Why
or why not?
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34. Mass immigration at the turn of the 20th century in the United States changed daily life
for citizens. Evaluate the impact of immigration on the United States. Support your
answer with three transformations to American life caused by immigration.
35. Discuss three positive or negative factors (social, political, economic, and or
environmental) created by industrialization and urbanization in the United States in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries.