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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Work.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the police handle strikes in the late 1800s?
(a) They would not respond to labor strikes.
(b) With violence.
(c) They often sided with the management.
(d) They often sided with the workers.

2. Which industry featured the most brutal conditions for time and wages in the late 1800s?
(a) Railroad.
(b) Steel.
(c) Auto.
(d) Textile.

3. According to Bettmann in "Air," many people were cramped together in windowless rooms in the tenements during the summer, causing:
(a) Many people to flee the cities.
(b) Landlords to lower rents.
(c) Heat stroke and dehydration.
(d) An increase in determination to succeed in the working class.

4. What was a common difficulty for frontiersmen after the Civil War?
(a) Animals kept dying.
(b) The ground often did not yield a crop.
(c) The threat of Indians.
(d) Financial hardship.

5. What did overpopulation in the big cities mean for the tenants in the late 1800s?
(a) A lack of food.
(b) A housing shortage.
(c) Families often had to split up.
(d) Only very small accomodations were available.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem did profit motives lead to for street car riders in the late 1800s?

2. In the era after the Civil War, what was the most dangerous sweatshop activity?

3. Who were most of the shantytown residents in the late 1800s?

4. According to Bettmann in "Rural Life," what frontier necessity was often a cesspool of contamination?

5. According to Bettmann in "Air," one observer called the worst New York industrial area a:

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