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Chapter 19: American Society in the Industrial Age

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

This activity contains 10 questions.

	"Old" immigrants may have come from all of the following countries EXCEPT   France. Germany. Italy. Great Britain. Sweden.

	Until the 1880s, immigration to the United States   was mainly from Asia and Mexico. had more impact on America's farms than its cities. was mainly to the West Coast. was virtually unrestricted by federal law. came in a steady, unvaried flow.

	All of the following advocated immigration restriction EXCEPT   the American Protective Association. urban reformers. the Grand Army of the Republic. contractors in the padrone system. labor unions.

	Which of the following is mispaired?   Henry Ward Beecher--Plymouth Congregational Church William Bliss--"Applied Christianity" William Gladden--Social Gospel Jane Addams--Hull House Jacob Riis--How the Other Half Lives

	Traditional churches in the late nineteenth century usually attributed the poverty of laborers to   God's wrath. socialism. unfair corporate practices. the workers' lack of initiative and thrift. lack of economic opportunity in the cities.

	The most important workers in settlement houses tended to be   female college graduates. retired persons. immigrants. male wage earners. professional men.

	The leading Christian evangelist of the late nineteenth century was   Washington Gladden. Louis Sullivan. Charles Grandison Finney. Dwight L. Moody. George Whitefield.

	"New" immigrants would NOT have come from:   Turkey. Russia. Italy. Greece. Scotland.

	Industrialism affected skilled wage earners in all the following ways EXCEPT   it increased their standard of living. increased demand for vocational training. it increased their productivity. it created a strong sense of their working-class solidarity. it shortened their workday.

	In time, women occupied most of the following jobs EXCEPT for   sales persons. typists. elementary school teachers. cashiers. unskilled factory workers.

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