Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

The open-hearth process of making steel

In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,

The combining of a number of firms engaged in the same enterprise into a single corporation is called ________.

The Knights of Labor were followed by the American Federation of Labor as the most significant national labor union.

During the late nineteenth century,the growth of large corporations was helped by

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

The history of American business organization saw the "pool" replace the "trust."

What factors in society and the business community during the late nineteenth century that would likely determine an individual's prospects for economic success were not considered in the ideal of the "self-made man"?

In the late nineteenth century,due to the growth of industrial capitalism,American workers

In the late nineteenth century,Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

Members of a militant labor organization that used harsh tactics against coal operators in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania called themselves the ________.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

By 1900,some workers had the legal right to compensation for injuries suffered on the job.

The Pullman strike of 1894

Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.

Describe the participation of women and children in the industrial economy around the turn of the century.What sorts of laws or regulations were passed to protect children in particular? Were they effective?

The economy began to fluctuate erratically beginning in 1873.

The most famous writer of the success story in the late nineteenth century was ________.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

The first major national labor conflict was the ________ of 1877.