November 20

831 and 802
Start studying for test on Tuesday. The review sheet is posted below.

Topics to study:
Gilded Age, Progressive Era
John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and other entrepreneurs
Upton Sinclair (“The Jungle”), Ida Tarbell, and other muckrakers,
monopoly, trust, capital, capitalism, competition, infrastructure, Sherman Anti-Trust Act
immigration, tenements
Jacob Riis, unions, strikes

Quiz will have 15 multiple choice questions, 5 identifications, and 1 DBQ part.

Review Questions
1) Gaining almost total control of an industry is called
a) a corporation b) a monopoly c) muckraking d) entrepreneur

2) Which legislation was a response to the public’s growing concern over trusts and monopolies
a) Monopolies Act b) Sherman’s Antitrust Act c) Trust Act d) Trust and Monopolies Act

3) Child-labor laws did not apply to what industry, which employed about 1 million children?
a) textile b) steel c) agriculture d) mining

4) Read the following excerpt and answer the question below
“…The Italian scavenger of our time is fast graduating into exclusive control of the corner fruit stands, while his black-eyed monopolizes the boot blacking industry, in which a few years ago he was an intruder…while the Chinese coolie is in almost exclusive possession of the laundry business. The reason is obvious. The poorest immigrant comes here with the purpose and ambition to better himself, and, given half a chance, might be reasonably expected to make the most of it….”
-Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives

The passage from Riis’ description of ethnic communities in the slums of New York City shows that immigrants ______to ________ their lives.
a) do little, make easier b) work hard, improve c) neglect, examine d) fail, make progress

5) Along with economic troubles, what condition drove people to emigrate?
a) high cost of housing b) weather c) ethnic group persecution d) poor schools

6) Many European immigrants coming to the East Coast entered through
a) Washington, D.C. b) Angel Island c) San Francisco Harbor d) Ellis Island

7) Overcrowding , health dangers, and crime were problems caused by what change in city populations?
a) a rapid decline b) a rapid growth c) a move to the suburbs d) a move to rural towns

8) What period suggested both the extravagant wealth of the late 1800s and the terrible poverty that lay underneath?
a) The Gilded Age b) Age of Prosperity c) Age of Golden Opportunity d) Industrial Age

9) Events in what country triggered the Spanish American War?
a) Puerto Rico
b) Cuba
c) Mexico
d) Panama

10) When powerful nations create large empires by controlling the economy and politics of weaker nations, it is called
a) annexation
b) expansionism
c) isolationism
d) imperialism


IDENTIFICATIONS Identify what each term is and explain its historical significance in the Gilded Age/Progressive Era/Spanish-American War


Jacob Riis

John D. Rockefeller

Tenements

The Jungle

Yellow Journalism



Base your responses to the questions below on the following quote and on your knowledge of social studies.

“We want eight hours (an eight hour workday) and nothing less. We have been accused of being selfish, and it has been said that that we will want more; that last year we got an advance of ten cents and now we want more. We do want more. You will find that a man generally wants more…You ask a workingman who is getting 2 dollars a day, and he will say that he wants ten cents more…while the man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then rsise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.”
-Samuel Gompers, founder of American Federation of Labor (AFL) and prominent American labor union leader

1) Who is Gompers referring to when he mentions “the man who has his millions”?
2) What is the purpose of Gomper’s words? Who might he be saying this to?