QUIZ 2: INDUSTRIAL LIFESTYLE

Edison's light bulb and Bell's telephone revolutionized communication.

False

Millions of people moved to the nation's rural areas hoping to improve their economic positions.

False

The Embargo Act decreased production while war boosted it.

False

The Great Railroad Strikes were violent outbreaks against unions.

False

Which of the following was the first labor organization that began in 1866?

National Labor Union

How did businesspeople form corporations?

They combined their capital and received permission from the government to merge.

Which of the following statements best describes most lower-income people living in cities?

They lived in tenements and worked in factories.

Factory production was greatly improved by standardized parts and assembly line production.

True

Fulton's Folly, the Model T, and the Tom Thumb improved distribution of goods.

True

Labor laws and antitrust laws kept corporations under control.

True

People who lived in the cities were forced to rely on others for employment.

True

Trade unions wanted to better the bargaining position of workers.

True

Workers dreaded layoffs because they had no unemployment insurance.

True

Five factors that increased industrial growth in the United States included:

better transportation war modern technology Embargo Act of 1807 assembly line production

Three advantages that corporations brought to America were:

employment lower prices a share of the profits

Four factors luring rural people to the big city included:

higher wages cultural and educational opportunities the opportunity to get rich recreational advantage

Three improvements sought by workers included:

higher wages fewer hours better working conditions

Factory employees consisted of which five groups of people?

managers immigrants unskilled laborers artisans children

In early America, women and children who had to work were readily employed by factories because they were --- than men.

paid less

Five factors that make a corporation a mammoth enterprise include:

stockholders modern machinery consolidation specialists stifling competition

The three major problems brought about by urbanization were:

tenements crime traffic congestion

By World War I, five main power sources included:

water steam electricity coal oil