Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Women fought for the right to
a. | D. get an education. | c. | C. vote. | b. | B. get a job. | d. | A. protect factory workers.
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Why did some Americans want immigration to end?
a. | B. They worried that immigrants would take their jobs. | c. | A. They thought the
United States was too crowded. | b. | D. They wanted to live in the tenements.
| d. | C. Immigrants were
attacking Americans. |
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How did Standard Oil become a monopoly?
a. | C. It bought small companies to reduce competition. | c. | B. It sold all of the big U.S.
companies. | b. | D. It paid factory workers lots of money. | d. | A. It sold parts of the company to other
people. |
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How did Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle help improve society?
a. | D. It helped women win the vote. | c. | B. It inspired President Theodore
Roosevelt to create national parks. | b. | A. It helped immigrants find jobs.
| d. | C. It led to new laws that
made food safer. |
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Why was Chicago in a good area?
a. | A. It had a lot of factories. | c. | C. There were tall buildings.
| b. | D. Chicago was not in a good area.
| d. | B. Canals linked Chicago to the Mississippi
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How did many of the inventions in the late 1800s affect the way businesses
operated?
a. | C. They helped prevent businesses from hiring young children. | c. | A. They replaced
machines with human workers. | b. | D. They helped people work faster and with
fewer mistakes. | d. | B. They
slowed the growth of large corporations. |
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Which of the following is true about the population of cities in 1910?
a. | D. Almost one-half of all Americans lived in a city. | c. | C. All Americans lived in cities.
| b. | A. No Americans lived in a city. | d. | B. Almost all Americans lived in a city.
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Which invention made it possible for factories and shops to stay open at
night?
a. | B. the typewriter | c. | D. the electric light bulb | b. | C. the paper bag
maker
| d. | A. the oil cup
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What is a muckraker?
a. | A. a person who works outdoors | c. | D. someone who points out ugly
truths | b. | B. a tool used to dig up mud | d. | C. a sickness caused by polluted water
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How did inventions change people's lives?
a. | B. It took people more time to do things. | c. | D. Inventions did not change
people's lives. | b. | A. Businesses did not grow.
| d. | C. They could do more work
in less time. |
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Immigrants had their own
a. | A. railroads. | c. | C. languages and customs. | b. | D. Congress.
| d. | B. immigration
stations. |
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Employers liked to hire immigrants because they
a. | A. came to escape persecution. | c. | B. worked many hours for little
pay. | b. | C. lived in unsafe conditions. | d. | D. could speak other
languages. |
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The NAACP was founded to
a. | C. work for equality for African Americans. | c. | A. gain suffrage for women.
| b. | D. save land for national parks. | d. | B. clean up factories.
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Rapid transit systems
a. | B. did not work. | c. | A. were slow. | b. | C. moved people around cities quickly.
| d. | D. were used on farms.
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What were two important new technologies that changed cities?
a. | C. elevators and steel street signs | c. | B. steel building frames and
electric wires | b. | A. iron buildings and electric elevators | d. | D. skyscrapers and fire escapes
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Before labor unions people in factories
a. | A. worked less than 8 hours a day. | c. | B. worked 10 to 12 hours a
day. | b. | C. were treated nicely by business owners. | d. | D. were paid a lot of money.
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What was one effect of overcrowding in cities?
a. | A. Many people lived in unsafe buildings. | c. | D. The transportation systems
improved. | b. | C. Immigrants had to live in skyscrapers. | d. | B. The slums were torn down, and new buildings
were built. |
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Asian immigrants
a. | D. did not face prejudice. | c. | C. faced less prejudice than
European immigrants. | b. | A. faced more prejudice than European
immigrants. | d. | B. faced the
same amount of prejudice as European immigrants. |
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Factory work
a. | A. was fun. | c. | B. was dangerous. | b. | C. was safe. | d. | D. paid well. |
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How many new immigrants arrived in the United States between 1880 and 1924?
a. | D. about two hundred | c. | B. about 100 million | b. | C. about 25 million | d. | A. about a hundred
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