Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

The open-hearth process made possible the production of steel in great quantities and large dimensions.

The Knights of Labor

During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States

What developments occurred within emerging corporations that resulted in a concentration of wealth and power?

The principal agent of industrial progress in the late nineteenth century was the ________.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,

The author made famous by her 1869 book Little Women was ________.

A central corporate body that would buy up the stock of various members of a trust and establish direct formal ownership of those corporations was called a(n) ________.

Governor John Peter Altgeld and Grover Cleveland found themselves on the same side in the Pullman strike.

In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

Why was there no sustained commitment to labor radicalism in the late nineteenth century?

Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward discovered a utopian world in eighteenth-century America.

One of the first corporate laboratories in the United States was opened by ________ in 1900.

In the late nineteenth century, what benefits did the growth of corporate industrialism offer to the American working class?

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union.

Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was an example of a combination of horizontal and vertical integration.

The ________ process involves blowing air through molten iron to burn out the impurities.

In 1917, automobile production in the United States

At its height in 1886, the Knights of Labor were led by