Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

Lester Frank Ward was a sociologist who rejected applying Darwinian laws to human society.

What technological advances made in the first half of the nineteenth century continued to be of great benefit to businesses during the late nineteenth century?

Russell Conwell became prominent in the late nineteenth century by delivering his "________" lecture more than 6,000 times.

Horatio Alger spoke out against child labor in his novels.

Henry Ford built the first gasoline-driven motor vehicle in America.

By 1900, some workers had the legal right to compensation for injuries suffered on the job.

Compare the ideas and practices of "self-made man" proponents with the ideas and practices of the utopian communities of earlier in the nineteenth century.

In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was

The Haymarket Square riot, which occurred in the city of Chicago, raised American fears of ________.

"Scientific management" was seen as a way to increase the decision-making abilities of employees in the workplace.

The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in response to the needs of the steel industry.

What were the factors that led many corporations to treat their workers so poorly?

Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner could both be called Social Darwinists.

Social Darwinism was an ideology that had its critics, but it did have a lot to do with the realities of the late nineteenth-century corporate economy.

The first and most important proponent of Social Darwinism was the English philosopher ________.

To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,

Carnegie Steel was a good example of vertical integration.

The taking over of all the different businesses on which a company relies to produce its primary product is called ________.