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In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States |
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? |
Charles F. Brush |
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Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States |
saw little development |
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The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer |
both A and B |
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The open-hearth process of making steel |
made the production of large dimension pieces possible |
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In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in |
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 |
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 |
automobile company |
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The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in |
Pennsylvania |
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In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in |
Europe |
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In 1917, automobile production in the United States |
saw five million cars on American roads |
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Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful airplane flight in 1903 |
A and B |
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In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations |
led to a diversification of research interests |
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Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry? |
James J. Hill |
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A key to Henry Ford’s success in mass production of automobiles was to |
use interchangeable parts |
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In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was |
$290 |
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In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States |
included the nation’s largest businesses |
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During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by |
both A and B |
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The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of |
vertical integration |
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The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of |
both A and B |
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To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was |
cutthroat competition |
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In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century |
one percent of businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing |
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In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires |
began their careers from positions of wealth |
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The social theory of Social Darwinism |
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 |
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 |
Herbert Spencer |
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According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his Gospel of Wealth |
the rich had great responsibilities to society |
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In his books, Horatio Alger |
emphasized the value of personal character in business |
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The late nineteenth century sociologist Lester Frank Ward |
believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society |
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The late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon |
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 |
a single land tax to replace all other taxes |
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Edward Bellamy’s 1888 book, Looking Backward |
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 |
both A and B |
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During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from |
Great Britain and northern Europe |
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Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law |
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 |
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, |
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 |
increased significantly since 1865 |
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The Molly Maguires were a militant |
labor union in the coal industry |
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The great railroad strike of 1877 |
was launched in response to a wage cut |
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The Knights of Labor |
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 |
all of the above |
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Samuel Gompers was the leader of the |
American Federation of Labor |
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The Haymarket Square riot of 1886 |
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists |
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During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States |
both A and B |
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In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur? |
was steel |
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Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead Strike of 1892? |
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? |
Pullman strike |
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The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company, |
cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy |
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The Pullman strike of 1894 |
saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike. |
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