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The aging American poet who most feared the impact of new industrial technologies on American life was

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John Greenleaf Whittier

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The most important advances in industrialization

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came in the last third of the nineteenth century

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How did the American government affect industrial growth?

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It provided incentives for growth.

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Which of the following was NOT a factor in American industrial development?

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industrialization of the South

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Industrial growth was concentrated in the

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Northeast

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In 1990, the population of the United States was approximately

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76,000,000 people

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The most significant technical innovation of the nineteenth century was

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railroads

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Which industry was considered the nation's "first big business"?

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railroads

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The development of a national railway system

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led to an integrated national economic system

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Rapid rail construction after the Civil War was possible because

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federal and state governments provided important activities

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A major change in the railroad industry after the Civil War was the development of

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major railroad trunk lines

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The political cartoon shown above most likely protests the business activities of which of the following individuals?

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Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroads

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The two transcontinental railroad lines met at

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Promontory, Utah

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By 1894, American railroads

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suffered from competition and overexpansion

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The most important figure in American finance was

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J. P. Morgan

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For J. P. Morgan,

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orderly consolidation brought stability to the economy

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Which of the following individuals is INCORRECTLY associated with the industry he helped to found?

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Henry Bessemer/railroads

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After 1870, the measure of a nation's industrial progress was determined by

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the production of steel

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In which type of organization does a company own all elements from raw materials to finished product?

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vertical integration

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Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the industrial magnates of the late nineteenth century?

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understanding of the rights of workers

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Andrew Carnegie's success could be attributed to the fact that he

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understood how to organize steel industry management, and its financial structure, to his best advantage

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This company became the first billion-dollar company.

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U. S. Steel

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The first modern trust was

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Standard Oil

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As a result of the proliferation of patents in the late nineteenth century,

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American life radically changed

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The individual most closely associated with innovations in photographic equipment was

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George Eastman

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The most important development in the communications system in nineteenth-century America was the

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telephone

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Which of the following were the most important inventions of the late nineteenth century?

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telephone and electricity

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The greatest inventor of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America was

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Thomas Edison

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Long-distance transmission of electricity was made possible by the use of alternating current, developed by

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Nikola Tesla

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Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the advent of advertising and large-scale retailing?

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Most consumers felt threatened by the new industrial goods

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Each of the following companies was a large scale retailer in the nineteenth century EXCEPT

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Wal-Mart

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Which of the following individuals was NOT an innovator in department store retailing in the late nineteenth century?

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Cyrus Field

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The development of brand names, chain stores, and mail order houses

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provided convenience and standardization

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Most working women

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were young and single

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In comparison to male workers, female workers

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were regulated to traditional "feminine" jobs

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The process of feminization took place in which of the following professions in the late nineteenth century?

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teaching

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Which of the following groups received the greatest rewards from industrialization?

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white, native-born males

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Most industrial workers found

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their work environment fluid and unstable

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The principals on which the Knights of Labor were founded included

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ensuring all Americans received equal benefits from the system

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The leader of the Knights of Labor was

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Terence Powderly

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The __________________ invited women and minorities to join.

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Knights of Labor

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Why did the Knights of Labor fail?

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It could not provide effective national leadership

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By the 1890s, the most important labor organization in the country was the

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American Federation of Labor

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Unlike the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor

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emphasized economic goals for workers

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As the leader of the American Federation of Labor, he tried to achieve pragmatic goals for his workers

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Samuel Gompers

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For women workers, the American Federation of Labor

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either ignored or opposed them as members

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All of the following observations can be made from the information provided in the labor union handbill that appears in the above EXCEPT:

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Agents of the Soviet Union infiltrated the meeting to cause violence that resulted in the arrest of several anarchist leaders, their trial for murder, and the execution of some of those leaders.

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The principle of the "iron law of wages" stated that

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supply and demand regulated wages

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The great strike of 1877, in which more than a hundred people died, involved

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railroad workers

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In the 1905 decision of Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court

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struck down a state law limiting the number of hours workers work each week

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The Haymarket Square riot

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weakened the national labor movement

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The Homestead Strike

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emphasized the cost of industrialization

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