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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Jay Cooke
Thomas Edison
- 2. Multiple Choice
After the Civil War, Republican economic policies led to...
huge budget deficits
significant tax increases
the dominance of large corporations
sustained inflation
- 3. Multiple Choice
New corporate managers pioneered which system to rack expenses and revenues in the late nineteenth century?
Cost accounting
balanced spending
line-by-line bookeeping
the management revolution
- 4. Multiple Choice
As American industry expanded in the late nineteenth century, its energy source shifted from
electric to steam
water to coal
coal to iron
steam to water
- 5. Multiple Choice
The US had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of...
incorporation
government subsidies
the transportation revolution
the Bessemer process
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements characterizes the employment of women in the American labor force during the late nineteenth century?
more than 75% of all stenographers were female
by the 1920s, the two-career marriage was the middle-class norm
young women were not encouraged to enter the workforce until they married
in 1890, almost half of all married white women worked outside the home
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following were skilled workers with a relatively high degree of autonomy in the 1870s?
Domestic servants
Labor gangs
Mechanics
Assembly-line workers
- 8. Multiple Choice
The introduction of mass production in the late-nineteenth-century American economy had which of the following advantages?
Mass production made work more interesting
It gave workers a greater sense of accomplishment
It gave workers greater control over the pace of their work
Mass production increased workers' output
- 9. Multiple Choice
"It looks to me like slavery to have a man stand over you with a stop watch." This statement by an iron molder refers to
scientific management
industrial unionism
yellow-dog contracts
working conditions for breaker boys
- 10. Multiple Choice
The outcome for the implementation of scientific management was
resistance from workers
resistance from managers
decreasing production efficiency
the workers found unions less appealing
- 11. Multiple Choice
Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the US in 1890?
there were almost no factories in the South, where the majority of African Americans lived at that time
white-dominated labor unions generally refused to allow blacks to join and seek industrial employment
factory owners could satisfy labor needs with immigrant workers, so they rejected most black applicants
black workers intensely disliked factory work and preferred agricultural or casual urban labor
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why did Chinese immigrants come to the US in the nineteenth century?
they were motivated by poverty and upheaval in southern China
Chinese immigrants came to open laundry businesses in American cities
The burgeoning population of China created widespread famine and shortages
Chinese men sought jobs as indentured servants in the houses of rich Californians
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of these factors were the critical determinants of workers' occupational opportunities in the late 19th century?
Gender and race
Age and ethnicity
Ethnicity and skills
Skills and race
- 14. Multiple Choice
Why has the labor movement always been relatively weak in American politics?
Poor leadership has often hindered the political effectiveness of the labor movement
Historically, labor unions have not been interested in engaging in the political process
most industrial workers live in urban areas and cities, which are underrepresented in Congress
Industrial workers put other concerns ahead of labor issues, making it difficult for labor unions to present a cohesive platform
- 15. Multiple Choice
The Knights of Labor advocated which of the following reforms in their 1878 platform?
the right to bear arsm
workplace safety laws
the family wage
workers' revolution
- 16. Multiple Choice
Established in 1887, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
encouraged companies to cooperate in setting prices
investigated in-state shipping
sued in court to force companies to reduce high rates
helped to transition companies into public ownership
- 17. Multiple Choice
Which of the following pairs is properly matched?
closed ship - force applied on a comparable industry to bring pressure on the primary target
yellow-dog contract - workers in one industry organized into a single organization, regardless of skill
collective bargaining - union negotiates with the employer for all the employees
trade union - all jobs reserved for union members
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following resulted from industrialization in the decades after the Civil War?
a shortage of agricultural products
slowing immigration
a higher standard of living
rapid price inflation
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the following as an example of vertical integration?
Buying trains to transport your oil
Buying out the competing paper mill
Agreeing on an exclusivity deal with a railroad company
none of the above
- 20. Multiple Choice
Carnegie's famous book that emphasized the importance of philanthropy and stressed the responsibility of the wealthy to help the poor was called
Wealth
Carnegie Steel
Gospel of Wealth
Carnegie's Wealth
- 21. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was not a reason for westward movement?
homesteads
cattle ranching
treaties with Indians to share land
mining
- 22. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was not an effect of westward settlement?
mass death of the buffalo
emergence of Indian reservations
"boom towns"
emergence of the Nativist party
- 23. Multiple Choice
Where did the "new immigrants" immigrate from?
Northern Africa
Western Europe
Southern and eastern Europe
Central Asia
- 24. Multiple Choice
What was the main reason American Federation of Labor was more successful than other labor unions of its time?
it assembled both skilled and unskilled laborers
it assembled only American laborers
it allowed African Americans to join
it assembled only skilled laborers
- 25. Multiple Choice
Rockefeller became a robber barron by buying/forcing his competitors out of the oil business and buying out their companies, a process known as
vertical integration
monopolization
horizontal integration
trust busting
- 26. Multiple Choice
Which act of Congress broke up tribal lands and attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American society?
Homestead Act
Native Integration Act
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Dawes Act
- 27. Multiple Choice
The rapid growth of railroads out west caused all of the following EXCEPT
westward settlement
transportation of natural resources
cheap transportation rates for farmers
urbanization of cities out west
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