Question 1

What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886?

Accepted Answer

A)   It led to increased sympathy for workers and unions.
B)   It resulted in the election of several German-born anarchists to the Illinois state legislature.
C)   It led to the arrest of the police who fired on the crowd.
D)   It resulted in intensified animosity toward labor unions.
E)   It led to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act. D

Question 2

What did Adam Smith argue in The Wealth of Nations ?

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A)   Self-interest acted as an "invisible hand" in the marketplace, automatically regulating the supply of and demand for services.
B)   Mechanization would become the "invisible hand" and automation would eliminate human labor.
C)   Wealth should be distributed evenly throughout society.
D)   Inexorable natural laws controlled the social order.
E)   A single tax would solve the nation's uneven distribution of wealth. A

Question 3

Who supported the New South Creed?

Accepted Answer

A)   industrialists who believed that the South's natural resources and cheap labor made it a natural site for industrial development.
B)   white supremacists who believed that "the South will rise again" through the subjugation of the black race.
C)   fundamentalist Southern Baptists who believed that the "Second Coming" of Christ was close at hand.
D)   aristocratic southern families who believed that the South would flourish again only if it returned to the plantation system.
E)   Northerners who believed that a new "accomodationist" approach had to be used if the south were to be brought back to economic health. A

Question 4

Why did the South lag behind the North in industrial development? What was the New South Creed, and how did the South start to catch up in manufacturing? How did shifts in the southern economy affect blacks and poor rural whites?

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Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Collis Huntington, Jay Gould, James Hill

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Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison

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Question 7

Which of the following issues did not impede the growth of unions in the late 19th century?

Accepted Answer

A)   Divisions between skilled craftsmen and common laborers
B)   Ethnic and religious diversity of the working class
C)   Limited financial resources
D)   Lack of interest on the part of workers because their real wages were rising and conditions were improving
E)   Divisions over tactics

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Vertical integration

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Question 9

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Pullman Strike, Eugene V. Debs, In re Debs

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Question 10

Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Jewish immigrants
B)   Chinese immigrants
C)   Irish Catholic immigrants
D)   Russian immigrants
E)   Mexican immigrants

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward

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Question 12

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
George Westinghouse

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Question 13

According to research provided in this chapter, how likely was it for someone in the late 19th century to live up to the Horatio Alger image of rising to great wealth simply based on self-discipline and hard work?

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A)   Just as likely as it was for those from middle and upper class families.
B)   Highly likely, given the affordable new technologies that made it easier to start a business with little money.
C)   Completely unlikely  very few workers went from poverty to enormous wealth.
D)   The best way for someone from the working class to get ahead was by mastering a skill and rising through the ranks of a small company.
E)   Likely, if they were willing to lie and cheat like the big companies.

Question 14

Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent?

Accepted Answer

A)   sewing machine
B)   refrigerated rail cars
C)   phonograph
D)   Bessemer converter
E)   refrigerated railroad cars

Question 15

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Company

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Question 16

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Henry W. Grady, Henry Watterson, New South

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Question 17

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. 
Terence V. Powderly, Knights of Labor

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Question 18

Which of the following was not one of the features that dominated the world of large-scale manufacturing after the Civil War?

Accepted Answer

A)   a new focus on energy conservation and finding alternatives to traditional fossil fuels.
B)   the rapid spread of technological innovation.
C)   a demand for workers who could be carefully controlled.
D)   the constant pressure on firms to compete tooth-and-nail by cutting costs and prices, eliminating rivals, and creating monopolies.
E)   a relentless drop in prices.

Question 19

How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Southern cotton mills hired mostly single women.
B)   Southern cotton mills were located in the countryside rather than cities.
C)   Southern mill workers were paid better than northern mill workers.
D)   Southern cotton mills used traditional handicraft methods rather than machinery to produce cloth.
E)   Southern cotton mills tended to be smaller, with safer working conditions.

Question 20

Which of the following statements concerning the United States Steel Company is true?

Accepted Answer

A)   It was Andrew Carnegie's steel company in the 1870s and 1880s.
B)   It was the steel company operated by the United States government when it nationalized the steel trust.
C)   It was the first business capitalized at more than $1 billion.
D)   It was created by J.P. Morgan to compete with Federal Steel.
E)   It was the first company to issue stock to meet its huge capital needs.

Exam 18: The Rise of Industrial America

What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886?

What did Adam Smith argue in The Wealth of Nations ?

Who supported the New South Creed?

Why did the South lag behind the North in industrial development? What was the New South Creed, and how did the South start to catch up in manufacturing? How did shifts in the southern economy affect blacks and poor rural whites?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Collis Huntington, Jay Gould, James Hill

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison

Which of the following issues did not impede the growth of unions in the late 19^th century?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Vertical integration

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Pullman Strike, Eugene V. Debs, In re Debs

Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. George Westinghouse

According to research provided in this chapter, how likely was it for someone in the late 19^th century to live up to the Horatio Alger image of rising to great wealth simply based on self-discipline and hard work?

Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent?

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil Company

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Henry W. Grady, Henry Watterson, New South

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Terence V. Powderly, Knights of Labor

Which of the following was not one of the features that dominated the world of large-scale manufacturing after the Civil War?

How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s?

Which of the following statements concerning the United States Steel Company is true?