Exam 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

Define, describe, and evaluate the "robber barons."

African American women were not part of the club movement.

Examine changes in management and production during the early twentieth century.

It would be accurate to state that rail workers living in the Pullman company town in 1894 had clean, decent and costly housing.

The Sherman Antitrust Act dealt a crippling blow to corporate trusts during the 1890s.

The Supreme Court ruled in the 1880s that states could not regulate interstate railroad traffic rates.

During the Homestead Strike, workers fought a pitched gun battle with 300 ____________________ guards hired by the company.

Which of the following men was associated with Standard Oil?

Who was the author of the utopian romance Looking Backward?

The American Federation of Labor was a loosely affiliated association of unions organized by trade or craft.

An investment strategy, developed by Rockefeller, that enabled large corporations to control their markets was the creation of the ____________________.

Workmen's compensation did not appear in the United States until after World War II.

Examine the role of the railroads in stimulating economic growth, arousing public hostility, and necessitating federal regulation of the industry.

The Populist Party's presidential candidate in 1892 was a Union veteran.

The Pullman strike (1894) was significant because

In the late 1890s, farmers experienced

The Haymarket Square incident united the country.

Andrew Carnegie created a monopoly in the ____ industry.

Farmers in the decades after the Civil War were frustrated by the problem of deflation.

____________________ was known as "the Wizard of Menlo Park."