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From the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century:

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the value of manufactures increased sixfold

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A transcontinental railroad was not built before the Civil War because:

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North-South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route

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The first transcontinental railroad:

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was built by the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads

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Who initially backed the Edison Electric Illuminating Company?

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J.P. Morgan

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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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When it came to steel, Andrew Carnegie did all of the following EXCEPT:

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have technical expertise in it

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The first billion-dollar corporation was:

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United States Steel

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During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and:

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a lot of other people were at least better off

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The Molly Maguires:

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aimed to right the perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers

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The Workingmens party of California:

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was based on anti-Chinese sentiment

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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 Knights of Labor declined for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

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Uriah S. Stephens, its president, died in 1879

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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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The Pullman strike ended:

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after mail cars were attached to Pullman cars

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Daniel De Leon:

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was the leading figure in the Socialist Labor party

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Which of the following statements about the Socialist party of America is not true?

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Its support was confined to industrial workers in the Northeast.

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William D. "Big Bill" Haywood:

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was the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World

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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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John D. Rockefeller:

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became a leading philanthropist

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Sears, Roebuck and Company was a pioneer in:

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selling goods by mail

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For industrial workers in Gilded Age America:

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working and living conditions remained precarious

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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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Violence erupted at the Homestead Works in 1892 when:

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Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons

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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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The state that gave the highest prcentage vote to the Socialist presidential candidate in 1912 was:

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Oklahoma

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The IWW was effectively destroyed when it:

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opposed American involvement in World War 1

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After her family died, Mother Jones moved to ________.

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Chicago

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Credit Mobilier was:

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a construction company that overcharged the railroads

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The work of Cornelius Vanderbilt helps emphasize that:

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business consolidation put the control of railroads in few hands

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Nikola Tesla's invention of the alternating-current motor did all of the following EXCEPT:

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made it possible for Edison to defeat Westinghouse

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Marxism, one strain of socialism, was imported to the United States mainly by:

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Germans

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Unlike Rockefeller and Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan:

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was born to wealth

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Joe Hill, the labor organizer, was NOT:

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buried in the Kremlin wall

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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 railroads

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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

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Which of the following best captures public sentiment about the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

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Public opinion shifted from sympathy to condemnation as people blamed the strikers for looting and violence

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Tension between labor and management in the late nineteenth century:

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helped generate interest in the doctrine of anarchism

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The Knights of Labor:

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sought to organize all types of workers

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Membership in the American Federation of Labor at first

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grew slowly

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