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The advantaged of steel over iron

Steel is lighter and stronger than iron

The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of

Henry Bessemer

The greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it

United the nation into a single, integrated national market

The tremendously rapid growth of American cities post civil war decades was

A trend that affected Europe as well

The major factor in drawing the county people off the farms and into the big cities was the

Availability of industrial jobs

The vast, integrated, continental U.S. market greatly enhanced the American inclination toward

Mass manufacturing of standardized industrial products

The first major product of the oil industry was

Kerosene

Most new immigrants

Tried to preserve their old country culture in America

Most Italian immigrants to the United States between 1880 and 1920 came to escape

The poverty and backwardness of Italy

The American protective association

Supported immigration restrictions

In the new urban environment, most liberal Protestants

Rejected biblical literalism and adapted religious ideas to modern culture

The major incentive that drive captains of industry to invent machines was

That machines would enable them to replace expensive skilled works with cheep unskilled workers

Two technological innovations that greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century were the

Typewriter and the telephone

Andrew Carnegie’s system of vertical integration

Combined all facets of an industry, from raw material to final product, within a single company

The single greatest industrial development after the civil war was the expansion of

Railroads

All of the following were important factors in the post-civil war industrial expansion except

Immigration restrictions

The concept of vertical integration refers to the practice of

Controlling industry from extraction of raw material to the marketing of finished products

Andrew Carnegie did for the steel industry, as __________ did for the petroleum industry

John D. Rockefeller

“Morganization” was a concept of

Consolidation of corporate control

The united states changed to standard time zones when

None of these are correct

The credit mobilier was a

Large and corrupt railroad construction company

The first group of unions that emerged in the 19th century America represented

Skilled craftsmen

Which of the following was not among the critical U.S. raw materials, delivered by railroads to factories, that fueled early American industrialization?

Rubber

The oil industry became a huge business

With the invention of the internal combustion engine

In the case of Wabash, ST. Louis, and pacific railroad company V. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state legislatures could not regulate railroads because

Railroads were interstate business and could not be regulated by any single state

Social Darwinism encouraged all of the following attitudes EXCEPT:

Social welfare legislation

Which of the following groups was the first target of congressional legislations restricting immigration?

Asian (Chinese)

What was the purpose of the Salvation Army?

To spread Christian teachings and offer food and shelter to the poor

The theme of most Horatio Alger stories of the late 19th century was the

Upward mobility of young boys

Population growth at the turn iof the century was promoted by all EXCEPT:

The black birth rate exploded after moving to the north and west

In the late 19th century cities

The poor were thrust to the outer fringes

W.E.B. Dubois

Belied that equality required a struggle

Workers in settlement houses tended to be

Women college graduates

One of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about into the lives of workers was

The need for them to adjust their lives to the time clock

The tremendous rapid growth of American cities in the post civil war decades was

A trend that affected Europe as well

The owner of the U.S. steel corporation was

J.P. Morgan

The new immigrants who came to the United States after 1880

Were culturally different from previous immigrants

The two immigrant ethnic groups who were most harshly treated in the mid to late 19th century were the

Irish and Chinese

Bread and butter issues referred most to

AFL demands (American federation of labor)

The people who found fault with the “captains of industry” mostly argued that these men

Built their corporate wealth and power by exploiting workers

One fo the major reasons the Knights of Labor failed was

Members lack of class consciousness

What was steerage?

An open area beneath a ships deck that provided cheap passage to a destination

Social Darwinist’s believed in which of the following?

Only the fittest individuals survive and flourish in the marketplace

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr were

Pioneers in the settlement house movement such as hull house

Although thought to provide safe, improved housing in crowded cities, major flaws exhibited in the

Dumbbell building

efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by

state legislatures

in the textiles mills of the industrializing south, all of the following are true statements EXCEPT:

rural black and white southerners landed plumb jobs in the new mills

the first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the

interstate commerce commission

the single largest source of a critical raw material that fueled early american industrialization was the

mesabi iron range of minnesota

to help corporations, the court ingeniously interpreted the 14th amendment, which was designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves, so as to

avoid corporate regulation by the states

Booker T. Washington believed that the key to political and civil rights for African Americans was

economic independence and education in agriculture and the trades

Black Leader, Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois

demanded complete equality for African Americans

the sherman anti trust act was at first primarily used to curb the power of

labor unions

during the age of industrialization, the south

made major efforts to industrialize that ultimately transformed the economic culture of the south, making the region much more industrial

the largest southern-based monopolistic corporation was the one founded by James Duke to produce

cigarettes

despite generally rising wages in the late nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to all EXCEPT:

new educational requirements for jobs

the image of the “gibson girl” represented a(n)

romantic ideal of the independent and athletic new woman

most women workers of the 1890’s worked

for economic necessity