The Gilded Age and Industrialization

Question 1

How did Industrial growth affect wealth distribution in the U.S?

Accepted Answer

All the wealth was concentrated in the hands of few industrialists.

Question 2

One of Andrew Carnegie's most famous quotes is, "The man who dies rich dies in disgrace." This came from what book?

Accepted Answer

Gospel of Wealth

Question 3

All of the following events happened from 1861-1900, EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

State right-to-work laws

Question 4

Which statement sums up the era between 1870-1900, (A.K.A "The Gilded Age")

Accepted Answer

A period of prosperity on the surface, with poverty and corruption beneath.

Question 5

What did the Bessemer Process improve?

Accepted Answer

Production of steel

Question 6

How did government respond to Pullman Strike?

Accepted Answer

Used federal troops against the workers.

Question 7

How did John D. Rockefeller gain control of the oil industry?

Accepted Answer

Practiced Horizontal consolidation (and some vertical consolidation, too)

Question 8

What do you call the separation of tasks in the work process?

Accepted Answer

Division of labor

Question 9

One key difference between the "Knights of Labor" and the "American Federation of Labor," was that the Knights did what?

Accepted Answer

Welcomed all workers

Question 10

Some Bosses forced their workers to sign "Yellow Dog Contracts," which stated what?

Accepted Answer

Workers could not join unions.

Question 11

If you were a critic of Rockefeller or Carnegie, you referred to them as...

Accepted Answer

Robber Barrons

Question 12

What was true of the American labor movement in the late 19th century?

Accepted Answer

Involved in violent strikes

Question 13

Which of the following MOST affected America's industrial growth in the late 1800's?

Accepted Answer

Technological Advances.

Question 14

How did Rockefeller use "vertical integration?"

Accepted Answer

He made what he needed, For example, his oil pipelines.

Question 15

In business, what is the idea that "as production increases, prices per item decreases?"

Accepted Answer

Economies of scale

Question 16

According to "Social Darwinism?" the government should...

Accepted Answer

Stay out of business

Question 17

Major strikes in the late 19th-century show us that...

Accepted Answer

Government intervention favored the Bosses over the workers.

Question 18

In their fight for better wages and working conditions, workers negotiated with their bosses... What is this called?

Accepted Answer

Collective bargaining

Question 19

The basic purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to

Accepted Answer

Restore business competition and a self-regulating economy.

Questions 19