Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

The combining of a number of firms engaged in the same enterprise into a single corporation is called ________.

Andrew Carnegie elaborated his philosophy in a 1901 book titled ________.

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

The history of American business organization saw the "pool" replace the "trust."

Congress abolished the Labor Contract Law in 1885.

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

________ invented the incandescent or electric lightbulb.

In his books, Horatio Alger

The open-hearth process of making steel

In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law

Originally, the American Federation of Labor was not willing to engage in strikes.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

In the Homestead strike of 1892, Andrew Carnegie's chief lieutenant was ________.

There was significant use of air power in World War I, but commercial air flights did not seem like a possibility until Charles Lindbergh's flight in the 1920s.

Why were labor unions not more successful during the late nineteenth century?

The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system.

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.