Question 1
The railroad most significantly stimulated American industrialization by
	Opening up the West to settlement
	Inspiring greater federal investment in technical research and development.
	Eliminating the inefficient canal system.
	Creating a single national market for raw materials and consumer goods.
Your Score
1	/ 1	points
Question 2
The railroads affected even the organization of time in the United States by
	Turning travel that had once taken days into a matter of hours.
	Introducing four standard time zones across the country.
	Introducing the concept of daylight savings time.
	Introducing regularly scheduled departures and arrivals on railroad timetables.
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1	/ 1	points
Question 3
The railroad barons aroused considerable public opposition by practices such as
	Stock watering and bribery of public officials.
	Refusing to build railroad lines in less settled areas.
	Refusing to pay the employees decent wages
	Forcing Indians off their traditional hunting grounds.
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1	/ 1	points
Question 4
The first important federal law aimed at regulation American industry was
	The Interstate Commerce Act
	The Federal Trade Commission
	The Pure Food and Drug Act
	The Federal Communications Act
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1	/ 1	points
Question 5
Match the following.
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Phonograph, Mimeograph, "perfecting the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
Steel Industry, Vertical Integration
Andrew Carnegie
Standard Oil Company, Horizontal Integration
Reverend Russell Conwell
Banking, Interlocking directorates
JP Morgan
Bessemer Process
John Rockefeller
Railroad Monopoly
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Air Brake for high railroad travel
George Pullman
William KellyGeorge Westinghouse
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5	/ 8	points
Question 6
Andrew Carnegie’s industrial system of “vertical integration” involved
	The cooperation between manufacturers like Andrew Carnegie and financiers like J.P. Morgan.
	The integration of diverse immigrant ethnic groups into the steel industry labor force.
	The combination of all phases of steel industry from mining to manufacturing into a single organization
	The construction of large, vertical steel factories in Pittsburgh and elsewhere
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Question 7
The large trusts like Standard Oil and Swift and Armor justified their economic domination of their industries by claiming that
	Only large American corporations could compete with huge British and German international companies.
	Competition among many small firms was contrary to the law of economics.
	Only large-scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at low prices.
	They were fundamentally concerned with serving the public interest over private profit.
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1	/ 1	points
Question 8
Match the following
ruled that individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce (such as the railroad); responsibility rested with the federal govt.; overturned Munn vs. Illinois (public always has the right to regulate business in which the public has an interest)
Interstate Commerce Act
scandal that occurred during Grant’s administration; construction companies pocketed 73 mil. for some 50 mil. worth of work as congressmen received kickbacks for looking the other way
Credit Mobilier
created in response to public demand for curbing excesses of trusts; forbade combinations in restraint of trade; however, mostly ineffective since it did not distinguish between good and bad trusts
Sherman Antitrust Act
stated that money should be given away for the public good but not to the individual in want by those who have money; in support philanthropy; Andrew Carnegie
Gospel of Wealth
advocated by Herbert Spencer who applied a biology theory of natural selection to human competition among businesses and the economy
Social Darwinism
first railroad to connect the east and the west; finished at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869
Transcontinental Railroad
Wabash CaseSlaughterhouse CasesPlessy vs. FergusonSocial Gospel
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Question 9
Determine whether each of the item is a AFL or Knights of Labor characteristic.
Samuel Gompers; Union was formed in 1886, grew rapidly from 1900 to 1914;
AFL
Included skilled workers (excluded unskilled workers and minorities such as women, blacks, immigrants);
AFL
Goals: “Bread & Butter” Issues such as 8-hour work day & higher wages
AFL
Leaders: Uriah Stephens (founder) & Terrence Powderly & Marry Harris Jones
 Founded in 1869
Knights of Labor
“One Big Union:” Skilled & Unskilled (including women & AA after 1883, strong Irish participation)
Knights of Labor
Goals: Equal Pay, 8-hour work day, Child Labor (under 14), Safety and Sanitary Codes, federal income tax, govt. ownership of railroads and telegraphs
AFL
Great Upheaval (series of violent labor confrontations, including 1,500 strikes & 500th workers, most well-known: Haymarket Riot) in 1886 led to demise
Knights of Labor
Knights of Labor
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Question 10
Charles Dana Gibson created a sensation with his drawings of healthy, athletic, young women which inspired new standards of female fashion as the 20th century opened, and came to symbolize women's growing independence and assertiveness.
	True
	False
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Question 11
New federal child labor legislation was established in the later 19th century to limit child labor.
	True
	False
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Question 12
Yellow dog contract (iron clad oath) is defined as a contract signed by employees promising never to join a union whereas workers could be fired for violating these oaths.
	True
	False
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Question 13
The Haymarket Square Bombing increased the Knights of Labor membership
	True
	False
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Question 14
Andrew Carnegie heavily believed in the ideas associated with the Gospel of Wealth.
	True
	False
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Question 15
Without question, Jay Gould obtained his wealth as a railroad entrepreneur through legal and ethical means.
	True
	False
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Question 16
A labor organization committed to an assault on capitalism was the
	Industrial Workers of the World
	Congress of Industrial Organization
	American Federation of Labor
	Knights of Labor
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Question 17
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community- the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brothers.”

These sentiments are most characteristic of
	Transcendentalism
	Gospel of Wealth
	The Social Gospel
	Social Darwinism
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Question 18
Which of the following most accurately describes the philosophy of Terence Powderly and his organization, the Knights of Labor?
	Powderly saw the support of farm organizations as a key to the success of the industrial workers.
	Powderly wanted to exclude the unskilled workers because they were easily replaced during strikes
	Powderly advocated strikes as a means of achieving the goals of the union.
	Powderly sought to organize the skilled and unskilled workers into one large union.
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Question 19
How did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95% of the nation's oil refining capacity by the 1880s?
	Through predatory pricing and the creation of the trust
	By implementing the process of vertical integration
	Through expanded sales and production overseas
	By inventing the process that extracted kerosene from crude oil
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Question 20
Which of the following technological innovations made it possible for Gustavus F. Swift to undercut the prices of local butchers?
	Automatic coupler
	Refrigerated car
	Friction gear
	Air brake
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Question 21
After the Civil War, Republican economic policies led to
	huge budget deficits
	significant tax increases
	the dominance of large corporations
	sustained inflation