Chapter 6 Us History Test Questions – Flashcards
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What did industrial consolidation and trusts reduce during the late 1800s
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Competition
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The main purpose of the company known as Credit Mobilier was to
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Steal railroad money for its shareholders
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Who are the smaller men in the picture?
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U.S. Senators
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What is the main idea of this cartoon?
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Owners of business monopolies control the Senate
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What is the setting of this cartoon?
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U.S. Senate
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What group do the large men at the back of the room represent?
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Wealthy monopolies
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Which entrance to the senate is closed?
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The peoples
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Which railway connected Butte and Minneapolis?
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Northern pacific
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Which two cities were connected by the Pennsylvania railway?
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Pittsburg and St Louis
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How many hours seperate Central and Eastern time?
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One
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Into how many time zones is the continental U.S. Divided?
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Four
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In 1870, how many railroads reached the west coast?
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One
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Andrew Carnegie gained control of a larger percentage of the steel industry by doing all of the following except
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Cutting the quality of his products
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All of the following factors contributed to the immense industrial boom of the early 1900s except
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The emergence of the middle class
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The interstate commerce act gave the right to supervise railroad activities to
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The federal government
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Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s
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They were workers used to break strikes
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The great strike of 1877 took place in the
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Railroad industry
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Why was Pullman, Illinois an unusual town?
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It was built by a company to house it's workers
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Who organized the industrial workers of the world
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Radical unionists and socialists
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Which of the following did social Darwinism discourage?
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Government regulation
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The Sherman antitrust act
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Outlawed the formation of trusts that interfered with free trade
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Which of the following resulted from the investigation of the triangle shirtwaist fire?
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Changes in local labor laws for women and children
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What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s?
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New methods of making steel
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Which of the following most allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers?
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Electricity
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In the late 1800s collective bargaining was a technique used to
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Win workers rights
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Which of the following places did 146 female workers die in a fire?
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The triangle shirtwaist factory
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What was the goal of the interstate commerce act?
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To lower excessive railroad rates
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Vertical integration, a business strategy used by Andrew Carnegie, involves
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Buying out raw material producers and distributors
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The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit
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Railroad companies and train travelers
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Social Darwinism was used to justify all of the following except
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Government regulations of business
