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Study Guide Social Studies 6th Grade 1st Quarter 2014-2015

Page # Item # Question Answer 1 What grew rapidly as a result of the expansion of railroads Rapid growth across the United States? of cities 2 What are people who buy stock or shares in companies stockholders called? 3 What did the Sherman Anti-trust act seek to prevent? monopolies 4 What business strategy did Andrew Carnegie utilize to keep Vertical Integration, production costs low? Hint: He owned all businesses owning the business involved in each step of the manufacturing process. in each step of manufacturing in the steel industry 5 What contribution did Henry Bessemer make to the steel A process that industry? allowed steel to be made quickly and cheaply 6 What industry increased productivity thanks to new Railroad technology in the steel industry? 7 What were criticized as unfair because they raised prices, but monopolies reduced the quality of products? 8 What were immigrants from northern Europe known as? Old immigrants 9 What percentage of immigrants were rejected at Ellis Island? Less than 2%

10 Where were “new immigrants” from? 11 Why did immigrants work low-paying industrial jobs? Lacked needed skills 12 What city experienced large amounts of pollution due to smoke from the steel making district in the late 1800s? Pittsburgh 13 How did cities try to improve sanitation in the late 1800s Water purification, garbage collection 14 What settlement house in Chicago inspired reform and Jane Addam’s Hull helped the immigrant population of the city? House 15 What state passed a factory law that required child workers Illinois to work only 8 hours a day? 16 Who worked for healthier working conditions for women Florence Kelly and children? 17 What system helped untrained and unqualified workers get Spoils system jobs? 18 Whose writings brought social and economic issues into the muckrakers public eye? 19 Who helped the urban poor by designing safer building City planners codes and opening public parks? 20 Who founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association? Stanton and Anthony 21 What amendment guaranteed women the right to vote? 19th Amendment 22 What amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. 17th Amendment Senators?

23 What organization used the courts to fight grandfather NAACP clauses? 24 Who encouraged African Americans to improve their Booker T. Washington economic and educational opportunities? 25 What group of people did not want to accept aid during the Native Americans progressive movement because they did not want to accept white culture? 26 Why did Taft’s reforms anger Progressives? To cautious to move against big business? 27 Who opposed women getting the right to vote because they Business leaders believed women would support minimum wage and child labor laws? 28 John D. Rockefeller was an entrepreneur and used this Horizontal integration, practice in his form of business? purchase all of the business in a single field to control production 29 Chart pg 145 Growth of Chicago Be able to read chart 30 Which city had the greatest population growth between 1850- Chicago 1900? 31 What was the main cause of pollution in Pittsburgh in the late Smoke from the steel, 1800’s? oil refiners and factories 32 How did politicians take care of corruption in Washington They passed laws that during the Glided Age? established a new system for granting jobs to federal workers 33 What permitted voters to approve or reject a law that had Referendum already been proposed or passed by a government body? 34 What permitted voters to remove an official from office Recall before the end of his or her term? 35 What allows voters to propose a new law by collecting Initiative signatures on a petition? How36 What allowed voters to vote directly for senators? 16th Amendment 37 What made it illegal to make, sell and transport alcohol? 18th Amendment 38 Workplace laws were passed during the Progressive The laws eased the movement, what is true about the laws? reformers minds but the laws were not always enforced 39 What is the system where the government owns and operates Socialism a country’s means of production? 40 What is the economic system in which private businesses run capitalism most industries and completion determines the price of goods?