Flashcards and Answers – US History ch 17
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In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
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saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth
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Who among the following did NOT make significant contributions to communication technology?
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Charles F. Brush
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Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States
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saw little development
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The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer
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both A and B
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The open-hearth process of making steel
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made the production of large dimension pieces possible
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In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
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In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
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All of the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT
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Atlanta
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In the late nineteenth century, the transportation needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the development of all of the following EXCEPT
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automobile company
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The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in
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Pennsylvania
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In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in
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Europe
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In 1917, automobile production in the United States
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saw five million cars on American roads
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Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903
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A and B
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In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations
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led to a diversification of research interests
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Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?
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James J. Hill
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A key to Henry Ford's success in mass production of automobiles was to
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use interchangeable parts
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In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was
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$290
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In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States
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included the nation's largest businesses
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During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by
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both A and B
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The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of
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vertical integration
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The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of
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both A and B
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To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was
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cutthroat competition
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In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century
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one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing
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In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires
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began their careers from positions of wealth
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The social theory of Social Darwinism
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promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth
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In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because
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racism and other prejudices held them back
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In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was
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Herbert Spencer
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According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth
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the rich had great responsibilities to society
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In his books, Horatio Alger
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emphasized the value of personal character in business
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The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
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believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society
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The late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon
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founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States
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In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of
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a single land tax to replace all other taxes
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Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward
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imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust
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In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
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both A and B
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During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from
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Great Britain and northern Europe
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Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law
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put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen
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In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
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state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers did not exist
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In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories,
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laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week
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During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States
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increased significantly since 1865
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The Molly Maguires were a militant
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labor union in the coal industry
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The great railroad strike of 1877
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was launched in response to a wage cut
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The Knights of Labor
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began as a secret fraternal organization
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The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor were divided by their positions on
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all of the above
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Samuel Gompers was the leader of the
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American Federation of Labor
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The Haymarket Square riot of 1886
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resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists
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During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States
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both A and B
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In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?
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was steel
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Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead Strike of 1892?
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Hundred of guards hired by Homestead were defeated in a deadly battle with strikers
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Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?
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Pullman strike
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The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,
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cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy
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The Pullman strike of 1894
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saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.
