Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

The great railroad strike of 1877

The great railroad strike of 1877 was put down by both state militias and federal troops.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

Most of the late nineteenth-century business tycoons began their careers in poverty or lower-class circumstances.

Charles and Frank Duryea built the first gasoline-driven ________ in America in 1893.

The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

Why were railroads such an important factor in the growth of industrial strength in America?

America's rise to industrial supremacy was not as sudden as has been suggested.

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from

The 1894 strike against the Pullman Company was led in part by ________, the head of the American Railway Union.

Henry George expounded on the virtues of his "________" in a book titled Progress and Poverty.

Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.

In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?