History Mid-term – Flashcards

2. Laissez-faire is a term that refers to:

3. At 4:20 p.m., Sunday, we rolled out of the station at Omaha, and started westward on our long jaunt. A couple of hours out, dinner was announced—an "event" to those of us who had yet to experience what it is to eat in one of Pullman's hotels on wheels . . .. Then to bed in luxurious couches, where we slept the sleep of the just and only awoke the next morning (Monday) at eight o'clock, to find ourselves at the crossing of the North Platte, three hundred miles from Omaha—fifteen hours and forty minutes out. —Mark Twain, Roughing It, 1872. Which statement is best supported by this excerpt?

4. How did the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad affect the demographics of the U.S. during Reconstruction?

5. "Society advances where its fittest members are allowed to assert their fitness with the least hindrance." This idea, advanced by Herbert Spencer, would be embraced by a supporter of which ideology?

6. Business leaders John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt were referred to as robber barons primarily because they

7. Which argument supports the perception of big business leaders as "captains of industry"?

8. After the Civil War, one way business leaders tried to eliminate competition was by:

9. A corporation is a: