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Quiz by Shari Anderson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Shari Anderson
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Question 1
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The federal government contributed to the building of the national rail network by?
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Importing substantial numbers of Chinese immigrants to build the railroads
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Providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies
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Building and operating the first transcontinental rail lines
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Transporting the mail and other federal shipments over the rail lines
Question 2
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The most efficient and public-minded of the early railroad building industrialists was?
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Collis P. Huntington
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Leland Stanford
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Cornelius Vanderbilt
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James J. Hill
Question 3
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The railroad most significantly stimulated American industrialization by?
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opening up the West to settlement
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creating a single national market for raw materials and consumer goods
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eliminating the inefficient canal system
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inspiring greater federal investment in technical research and development
Question 4
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The railroad barons aroused considerable public opposition by practices such as:
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forcing Indians off their traditional hunting grounds
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refusing to pay their employees decent wages
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refusing to build railroad lines in less settled areas
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stock watering and bribery of public officials
Question 5
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The railroads affected even the organization of time in the United States by:
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introducing regularly scheduled departures and arrivals on railroad timetables
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introducing the concept of daylight savings time
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introducing four standard time zones across the country
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turning travel that had once taken days into a matter of hours
Question 6
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The first important federal law aimed at regulating American industry was?
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the Federal Communications Act
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the Pure Food and Drug Act
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the Interstate Commerce Act
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the Federal Trade Commission
Question 7
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Financier J.P. Morgan exercised his economic power most effectively by?
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developing "horizontal integration" in the oil industry
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lending money to the federal government
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consolidating rival industries through "interlocking directorates"
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serving as the middleman between American industrialists and foreign governments
Question 8
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Two late-nineteenth century technological inventions that especially drew women out of the home and into the workforce were?
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the railroad and the telegraph
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the electric light and the phonograph
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the case register and the stock ticker
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the typewriter and the telephone
Question 9
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Andrew Carnegie's industrial system of "vertical integration" referred to?
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the construction of large, vertical steel factories in Pittsburgh and elsewhere.
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the cooperation between manufacturers like Andrew Carnegie and financiers like J.P. Morgan.
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the integration of diverse immigrant ethnic groups into the steel industry labor force.
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the combination of all phases of the steel industry from mining to manufacturing into a single organization.
Question 10
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The large trusts like Standard Oil and Swift and Armour justified their economic domination of their industries by claiming that?
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they were fundamentally concerned with serving the public interest over private profit
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only large scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at low prices
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competition among many small firms was contrary to the laws of economics
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only large American industries could compete with British and German international companies
Question 11
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The oil industry first thrived in the late 1800s by producing?
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natural gas and heating oil for home heating purposes
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kerosene for oil lamps
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gasoline for automobiles
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heavy-duty diesel fuel for the railroads and industry
Question 12
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Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" proclaimed his belief that?
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wealth was God's reward for hard work, while poverty resulted from laziness and immorality
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churches needed to take a stronger stand on the economic issues of the day
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faith in capitalism and progress should take the place once reserved for religion
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those who acquired great wealth were morally responsible to use it for the public good
Question 13
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The attempt to create an industrialized "New South" in the late nineteenth century generally failed because?
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the South was discriminated against and held down as a supplier of raw materials to northern industry
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Southerners were too bitter at the Union to pursue national goals
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continued political violence made the South an unattractive place for investment
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there was little demand for southern products like textiles and cigarettes
Question 14
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For American workers, industrialization generally meant?
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a steady, long-term decline in wages and the standard of living
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an opportunity to create small businesses that might eventually produce large profits
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a long term rise in the standard of living but a loss of independence and control of work
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a stronger sense of identification with their jobs and employers
Question 15
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In contrast to the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor advocated?
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uniting both skilled and unskilled workers into a single large union
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concentrating on improved wages and hours and avoiding general social reform
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working for black and female labor interests as well as those of white men
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using secrecy and violence against employers
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