Exam 16: Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Which of these factors were the critical determinants of workers' occupational opportunities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Which of the following arguments did Andrew Carnegie make in his famous 1889 essay "Wealth" (later called "The Gospel of Wealth")?

Answer the following questions : -Gospel of Wealth

How did John D.Rockefeller's Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95 percent of the nation's oil refining capacity by the 1880s?

Established in 1887,the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

Answer the following questions : -vertical integration

The introduction of mass production in the late-nineteenth-century American economy had which of the following advantages?

Answer the following questions : -Interstate Commerce Act

Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the United States in 1890?

Why was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant?

Why was clerical and office work appealing to white working-class women in the late nineteenth century?

Which business strategy did John D.Rockefeller pioneer in the late nineteenth century?

How did the goals and practices of the American Federation of Labor resemble and differ from those of the Knights of Labor?

Answer the following questions : -Chinese Exclusion Act

Answer the following questions : -Farmers' Alliance

Answer the following questions : -Great Railroad Strike of 1877

Answer the following questions : -New South

What late-nineteenth-century development made it possible for rural Americans to participate in the national consumer culture?

Compare the accomplishments and limitations of American farmer-labor movements of the 1870s and 1880s,such as the Greenback-Labor Party and the Knights of Labor,with those of the American Federation of Labor.Why did the latter choose a different strategy?

What new patterns of work developed in the corporate and industrial workplaces? What were the consequences of these patterns for men and women?