Exam 16: Building Factories, Building Cities, 1877-1900

Discuss the similarities and differences between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor in relation to ideology, organization, membership, and goals. Why was the American Federation of Labor ultimately more successful than the Knights of Labor? How did unions seek to address workers' grievances, and were they successful?

Which of the following is true of late-nineteenth-century immigrants to the United States?

Explain the emergence of urban political machines and political bosses, and discuss the characteristics of the political bosses and the political system they operated.

What was the identity of an urban neighborhood usually based on?

Why did the proportion of women working as sales clerks increase in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Working-class families often supplemented their income by

In Holden v. Hardy, the Supreme Court of the United States ______________.

Advocates of Social Darwinism believed that _____________________.

What was the alliance of craft unions that emerged from 1886 upheavals as the major workers' organization?

Examine Social Darwinism as well as the growing demand in the late nineteenth century that something be done about the power of big business; indicate the result of this demand; and assess the effectiveness of this result in controlling big business by 1900.

Explain the variety of ways in which Americans made use of increased leisure time in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To what segments of the population did the different forms of leisure appeal?

The main problem with pools was that _____________________.

Who was John D. Rockefeller?

The daughter in an immigrant family might expect to be

President Grover Cleveland responded to the 1894 Pullman strike by _______________.

Trace the corporate consolidation movement in late-nineteenth-century American society, and explain why businessmen felt the need for larger forms of economic concentration.

Which of the following was a provision of the Chinese Exclusion Act passed by Congress in 1882?

What was the focus of yellow journalism?

During the late nineteenth century, states that passed laws against trusts and monopolies ______________.

Which of the following is true of holding companies?