Question 1

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

Accepted Answer

A)  included blowing air through molten iron. 
B)  involved adding ingredients to molten iron. 
C)  was also developed by an American, William Kelly. 
D)  included both blowing air through and adding ingredients to molten iron. 
E)  All these answers are correct. 
A)  included blowing air through molten iron. 
B)  involved adding ingredients to molten iron. 
C)  was also developed by an American, William Kelly. 
D)  included both blowing air through and adding ingredients to molten iron. 
E)  All these answers are correct.

Question 2

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

Accepted Answer

A)  ordered rail workers to move into company-owned housing. 
B)  referred to workers as his "children." 
C)  cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy. 
D)  refused to implement an eight-hour work day. 
E)  began hiring African American workers in his factories. 
A)  ordered rail workers to move into company-owned housing. 
B)  referred to workers as his "children." 
C)  cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy. 
D)  refused to implement an eight-hour work day. 
E)  began hiring African American workers in his factories.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

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Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The New Deal

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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