HIST 1302 ch18 – Flashcards
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By the 1870s, the United States led the world in agricultural production.
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True
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Andrew Carnegie consolidated the steel industry into U.S. Steel.
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False
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John D. Rockefeller gave away over $500 million to charities in his lifetime.
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True
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Among Edison's inventions were the typewriter and the telephone.
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False
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John D. Rockefeller used Cleveland, Ohio, as his initial base of operations.
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True
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In the 1880s, the United States was the only industrialized nation in the world that had no workers' compensation program
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True
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The first major interstate strike was the Haymarket Strike of 1886.
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False
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The Knights of Labor was an organization of capitalists dedicated to the elimination of unions in America.
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False
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The American Federation of Labor was an organization of craft unions.
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True
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Employees of the Pullman company worked in company houses, where rents were higher than elsewhere, and had to buy most goods from the company store.
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True
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In 1880, one out of every six children was working full time.
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True
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Terence V. Powderly led the Knights of Labor.
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True
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The first major interstate labor strike was the Homestead Strike in 1894.
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False
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Under Samuel Gompers, the American Federation of Labor concentrated on economic gains for workers and avoided involvement in politics.
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True
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Eugene V. Debs received 6 percent of the popular vote when he ran for president as a socialist in 1912.
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True
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One major development that was key to the Second Industrial Revolution was the development of
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a national transportation network.
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The first big business in the United States was in
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railroads
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The first transcontinental railroad was completed in
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1869
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Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" explained
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the virtues of the law of competition.
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The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was
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quelled by federal troops.
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The use of the trust device for consolidating industry originated with
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John D. Rockefeller.
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All of the following are true of American workers by the 1880s except
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they joined unions in large numbers.
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The Homestead Strike of 1892 was against
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Carnegie's steel mill.
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Samuel Gompers was a leader of the
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American Federation of Labor.
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The first national labor unions
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grew in numbers during the Civil War.
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The following are all true of anarchists except that they
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were led by Karl Marx.
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The Haymarket incident involved
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all the above
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The American Federation of Labor
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primarily organized skilled workers.
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The president of the United States used federal troops to end the strike at
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Pullman, Illinois.
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The organization that wanted to destroy the state and replace it with "one big union" was the
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Industrial Workers of the World.
