U.s. History Ii Chapter 24

Front 1

The federal government contributed to the building of the national rail network by doing which of the following?

Back 1

Providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies.

Front 2

Which of the following were the first two railroads that joined to created the first transcontinental line in 1869?

Back 2

Union Pacific and the Central Pacific

Front 3

Which of the following was not among the notable achievements of the railroad network?

Back 3

inspiring greater federal investment in technical research and development

Front 4

Which of the following was not among the corrupt practices commonly engaged in by railroad companies?

Back 4

importing illegal immigrants to build railroad lines

Front 5

Which of the following best explains why the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was a significant achievement despite its weaknesses?

Back 5

It was the first large-scale attempt by the federal government to regulate business in the interest of society at large.

Front 6

A "vertical trust" like the Carnegie Steel Corporation essentially worked to do which of the following?

Back 6

Establish monopolistic control over every phase of business from raw material to final consumer.

Front 7

Which of the following best describes how financier J.P. Morgan exercised his economic power most effectively?

Back 7

Consolidating rival industries through "interlocking directorates"

Front 8

Which of the following men was not among the organizers of one of the large "trusts" of the Gilded Age?

Back 8

Thomas Edison

Front 9

What was his answer to himself when the Yale social theorist William Graham Sumner asked the question, "What do social classes owe each other?"

Back 9

"Nothing."

Front 10

Large trusts such as Standard Oil and Swift and Armour justified their economic domination of their respective industries by claiming which of the following?

Back 10

That only large-scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at low prices.

Front 11

Which of the following can be seen as having some responsibility for the fall of the Knights of Labor?

Back 11

The Haymarket Square episode and membership of both skilled and unskilled workers

Front 12

Which effort represents the first attempt at curtailing the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations during this period?

Back 12

Laws passed by state legislatures that regulated the actions and practices of railroad corporation

Front 13

Which of the following economic developments was not significant in helping America to industrialize rapidly?

Back 13

sale of confiscated Confederate land

Front 14

Which of the following two industries were most stimulated by the completion of the transcontinental railroad?

Back 14

mining and agriculture

Front 15

Which of the following best describes the Europeans' approach to ownership or investment in private companies in the United States during this period?

Back 15

Allowing Americans to manage the business unless an economic crisis occurred

Front 16

How did the American system of mass manufacture of interchangeable parts influence the behavior of U.S. capitalists?

Back 16

It stimulated U.S. capitalists to replace skilled labor with unskilled workers and machinery

Front 17

What two technological innovations greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century

Back 17

typewriter and telephone

Front 18

These economic strategies were employed by titans of industry, during this period (1865-1900), to maximize their corporations' profits except for which of the following?

Back 18

permitting workers to join collective bargaining unions

Front 19

Which of the following best describes the intellectual viewpoint of Andrew Carnegie as expressed in the "Gospel of Wealth"?

Back 19

The wealthy should exhibit moral and social responsibility in their use of the God-given money.

Front 20

All of the following were major attractions for potential investors in southern manufacturing industries except:

Back 20

a well-educated and ethnically diverse work force.

Front 21

Which entity was first prosecuted for alleged restraint-of-trade violations by the U.S. government using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890?

Back 21

labor unions

Front 22

Despite a generally rising median wage in the nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to a number of factors except which of the following?

Back 22

new educational requirements for jobs

Front 23

Which of the following was not a strategy utilized by late-nineteenth-century employers to gain leverage over workers seeking to improve their wages and working conditions?

Back 23

closed shop

Front 24

Which of the following was not a difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

Back 24

The Knights of Labor refused to condone striking; the AFL believed that strikes could help the workers' cause.

Front 25

Railroads changed the American landscape in all of the following ways except by

Back 25

limiting the number of people moving to over-crowded cities.