Exam 17: Business and Labor in the Industrial Era, 1860-1900

Interconnected transportation and communications networks were essential to the origins of the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States because:

During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and:

Like the AFL, the Knights of Labor admitted only skilled workers.

Westinghouse's system of transmitting electricity over long distances lost the "battle of the currents."

The American Federation of Labor:

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Describe the growth of radicalism in America's unions after the Civil War. What were the driving forces pulling the unions to the left, and how successful were they? What forces limited radicalism's success in the American political context?

One method that executives used to fight unions was:

The invention of electric motors did all of the following EXCEPT:

The Sand-Lot Incident refers to:

Write an essay that explains the significance of railroad expansion in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Discuss how these railroads were financed, who the people were behind the expansion, and how they affected the economic development of the country in the late nineteenth century.

Violence erupted at Homestead Steel in 1892 when:

When it came to steel, Andrew Carnegie did all the following EXCEPT:

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The Molly Maguires:

The city of Chicago annexed the city of Pullman after:

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Who developed the first alternating current electric system?

Trusts, like Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust, were vulnerable because they:

The first transcontinental railroad: