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The Pennsylvania oil rush:
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outweighed, in economic importance, the California gold rush of a decade before
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Which of the following best accounts for the success of Standard Oil?
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Its corporate structure-known as vertical integration-allowed the company to grow tremendously.
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Andrew Carnegie:
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made money in many areas, including oil, railroads, iron and steel, and bridge building
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What industry was "the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy?
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Railroads
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The National Labor Union:
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persuaded Congress to enact an eight-hour workday
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The Haymarket affair:
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was blamed, probably unfairly,on seven anarchist leaders
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The American Federation of Labor:
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was concerned more with concrete economic gains than with social or political reforms
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The Homestead strike:
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took place in Pennsylvania
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Most of the single men who endured low wages and dangerous conditions to build the Central Pacific Railroad were:
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Chinese
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Jay Gould was:
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the most notorious of the railroad "robber barons"
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 ws provoked by:
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wage cuts that followed a depression
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President Grover Cleveland's response to the Pullman strike was to:
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send federal troops to keep the trains running
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Unlike Rockefeller and Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan:
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was born to wealth
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The Pinkertons were ______ who were often used to __________.
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"detectives" and security guards; control workers
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Federal and state government leaders after the civil war actively encouraged the growth of business by doing all of the following except
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providing prison labor to railroad companies
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The Knights of Labor
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Sought for men and women to have equal pay
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The greatest growth of the Knights of Labor took place
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In the mid-1880s, when the union had several successful strikes against the railroad
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Thomas Alva Edison invented the
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first successful incandescent light bulb
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Holding Companies
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are firms that control the stock of other companies
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Mary "Mother Jones" Harris promoted all of the following causes except
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temperance
