apush ch 24 – Flashcards
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When private railroad promoters asked the United States government for subsidies to build their railroads, they gave all of the following reasons for their request except that it was
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too costly to move people to some areas without government help
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During the Gilded Age, most of the railroad barons
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built their railroads with government assistance
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One by-product of the development of the railroads was
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the movement of people to cities
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The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years was
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the railroad network
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Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
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pools
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Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by
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state legislatures
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One of the most significant aspects of the Interstate Commerce Act was that it
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represented the first large-scale attempt by the federal government to regulate business
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After the Civil War, the plentiful supply of unskilled labor in the United States
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helped to build the nation into an industrial giant
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One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits was
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elimination of as much competition as possible
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Match each entrepreneur below with the focus of business combination with which he is historicically identified. A. Andrew Carnegie B. John D. Rockefeller C. J. Pierpoint Morgan 1. interlocking directorate 2. trust 3. vertical integration
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A-3 B-2 C-1
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J.P. Morgan monitored his competition by placing officers of his bank on the boards of companies that he wanted to control. This method was known as
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interlocking directorate
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John D. Rockefeller used all of the following tactics to achieve success in the oil industry except
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showing mercy to his competitors
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The gospel of wealth, which associated godliness with wealth
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discouraged efforts to help the poor
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To help corporations, the courts ingeniously interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment which was designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves, so as to
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avoid corporate regulation by the states
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During the age of industrialization, the South
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remained overwhelmingly rural and agricultural
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In the late nineteenth century, tax benefits and cheap, nonunion labor attracted ____ manufacturing to the "New South"
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textile
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The group most affected by the new industrial age was
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women
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To provide workers with job security, reformers wanted to introduce all of the following except
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establishment of a workers' political party
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Most women workers in the 1890s worked for
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economic necessity
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Which one of the following is least like the other three?
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Closed shop
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Generally, the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the Constitution in such a way as to favor
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corporations
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The Knights of Labor believed that republican traditions and institutions could be preserved from corrupt monopolists
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by strengthening the economic and political independence of the workers
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The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the
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American Federation of Labor
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By 1900, American attitudes toward labor began to change as the public came to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike. Nevertheless
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the vast majority of employers continued to fight organized labor
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Historians critical of the captains of industry and capitalism concede that class-based protest has never been a powerful force in the United States because
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America has greater social mobility than Europe has
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All of the following were important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion except
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immigration restrictions
