Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

In the 1870s,the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

The 1894 strike against the Pullman Company was led in part by ________,the head of the American Railway Union.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

There was significant use of air power in World War I,but commercial air flights did not seem like a possibility until Charles Lindbergh's flight in the 1920s.

What developments occurred within emerging corporations that resulted in a concentration of wealth and power?

In the 1870s,most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.

During the late nineteenth century,child labor in the United States

Why was there no sustained commitment to labor radicalism in the late nineteenth century?

By 1900,factory work in the United States required ever-increasing levels of skill.

By 1900,the average yearly income of American workers

Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner could both be called Social Darwinists.

Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.

In the late nineteenth century,the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

In 1917,automobile production in the United States

________ invented the incandescent or electric lightbulb.

The new rationale for capitalism in the late nineteenth century rested on an older ideology of individualism.

Around the turn of the century,relatively few Americans shared the views of those who questioned capitalism itself.

Both the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor favored the concept of one big union.

The Pennsylvania Railroad was created by

In the late nineteenth century,industry in the United States