YAWP Ch. 18 Reading Exam with Complete
Solutions
Total questions: 50
1. Which factor most directly enabled a national market by linking towns and cities across
vast distances?
a) Growth of neighborhood streetcars b) Protective tariffs on imported goods
c) Expansion of transcontinental railroads d) Local craft guild regulations
2. By 1900, Chicago’s population was roughly 1.7 million. Which trend most explains this
growth?
a) Government caps on urban construction b) Elimination of factory jobs through
automation
c) Influx of European immigrants d) Closure of immigrant ports on the East
and rural migrants Coast
3. Which policy action under Republican leadership most supported railroad growth after the
Civil War?
a) Abolition of corporate charters nationwide b) Granting vast land and government bonds
c) Imposing strict antitrust breakups on rail lines d) Banning immigrant labor on
construction
4. Which demographic pattern characterized Chicago around 1900?
a) Majority native-born with few immigrants b) Population stabilized due to strict quotas
c) Exclusively migrants from rural American South d) Nearly eighty percent foreign-born or
children of
immigrants
5. Which description best captures Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park operation in the late 1870s?
a) A lone inventor tinkering in a home workshop b) A government military laboratory for
weapons
, c) An invention factory with d) A corporate-funded university research
coordinated R&D teams program
Solutions
Total questions: 50
1. Which factor most directly enabled a national market by linking towns and cities across
vast distances?
a) Growth of neighborhood streetcars b) Protective tariffs on imported goods
c) Expansion of transcontinental railroads d) Local craft guild regulations
2. By 1900, Chicago’s population was roughly 1.7 million. Which trend most explains this
growth?
a) Government caps on urban construction b) Elimination of factory jobs through
automation
c) Influx of European immigrants d) Closure of immigrant ports on the East
and rural migrants Coast
3. Which policy action under Republican leadership most supported railroad growth after the
Civil War?
a) Abolition of corporate charters nationwide b) Granting vast land and government bonds
c) Imposing strict antitrust breakups on rail lines d) Banning immigrant labor on
construction
4. Which demographic pattern characterized Chicago around 1900?
a) Majority native-born with few immigrants b) Population stabilized due to strict quotas
c) Exclusively migrants from rural American South d) Nearly eighty percent foreign-born or
children of
immigrants
5. Which description best captures Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park operation in the late 1870s?
a) A lone inventor tinkering in a home workshop b) A government military laboratory for
weapons
, c) An invention factory with d) A corporate-funded university research
coordinated R&D teams program
