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- 1. Multiple ChoiceVertical and horizontal integration were strategies designed toend unsafe working conditions and promote cooperatively run corporations.eliminate competition and control every step of the production process.involve the government in protecting workers and fair wages.give stockholders control over corporations.
- 2. Multiple ChoiceAndrew Carnegie managed to keep costs for his steel low byusing government loans and corporate tax breaks.giving away most of his money to charitymoving all of his steel plants to foreign countriesowning the businesses involved in each step of the manufacturing of steel.
- 3. Multiple ChoiceHow is a corporation different from other types of businesses?They sell stock shares to attract investment and share riskThey share profits equally with all workers.They were illegal in the late 1800s.They are privately owned by one person or family.
- 4. Multiple ChoiceOf which of these actions would business leader John D. Rockefeller support?buying all of the businesses in a single field to control productionpreventing one company from getting a monopoly in one industryletting the government monitor and manage business dealssetting a minimum wage for workers and requiring safe work conditions
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the transcontinental railroad meant to connect?the southern United States to the Norththe eastern United States to the WestCanada to the southern United StatesCanada to Mexico and Central America
- 6. Multiple ChoiceHow did Thomas Edison affect life in America?Edison studied science to help Americans better understand the world.Edison created a successful lightbulb and a system for supplying electricity in big cities.Edison developed alternating current to send electricity over miles of wires.Edison designed a trolley car that could run without a cable.
- 7. Multiple ChoiceHow did the expansion of railroads affect the United States?It made it easier and cheaper to move productsIt increased in the price of steelIt slowed trade between the statesIt helped Native Americans keep their land
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is a monopoly?
Everyone gets a fair share of the business
The government controls business
When one company has total control of an entire supply of goods.
- 9. Multiple Choice
How did many strikes end during the
Industrial Revolution?
The workers got what they wanted
There was a lot of violence and the
workers lost
The businesses had to shut down
- 10. Multiple Choice
Who made the car affordable for
most Americans by creating the assembly line?
Henry Ford
Henry Frick
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThis is an example of how factory work was dangerous:long hourslittle payfew breakshot, dirty and loud
- 12. Multiple Choice
When violence broke out during strikes, membership in unions
decreased
increased
stayed the same
unions broke apart
- 13. Multiple ChoiceVertical and horizontal integration were strategies designed toend unsafe working conditions and promote cooperatively run corporations.eliminate competition and control every step of the production process.involve the government in protecting workers and fair wages.give stockholders control over corporations.
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