Exam 3: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

In the late nineteenth century,the railroads

____________________,the plant manager for the Homestead Steel plant,was almost assassinated by an anarchist during a labor dispute.

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

William McKinley wished that the presidential campaign of 1896 would have focused on his specialty,____________________.

All of the following women wrote about middle class women's growing discontentment with domesticity except 

The Haymarket affair is associated with the ____ corporation.

Advertising images increasingly used vivid colors.

William McKinley ran a ____________________ campaign,inviting various delegations to his Ohio home to  hear carefully crafted speeches on a host of topics.

The ____________________ was young,athletic and self confident.

John D.Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was the first "trust."

Industrial titans were called ____________________.

William Jennings Bryan

During the Homestead strike,public sympathy began with the strikers but shifted against them over time.

free silver movement

Senator ____________________ of South Carolina gained fame for denouncing the Cleveland administration and proclaiming his intention to "prod [the president] in his fat ribs" with a pitchfork.

All of the following were technological advances for railroads except the

The single most important industry for economic growth during the Gilded Age was the ____________________.

____________________ was the new art movement in the Gilded Age.

National time zones were created by ____________________ in 1883.

Founded in 1867,the Patrons of Husbandry was also known as the ____________________.