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The American Nation chapter 5 Second Industrial Revolution
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1
A free market is based on
majority rule
democracy
high taxes
competition
2
Which city became a major center for steel manufacturing in the late 1800's?
Miami, Florida
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Gary, Indiana
Cleveland, Ohio
3
A guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make use or sell an invention is called a
hand shake
covenant
patent
contract
4
Who wrote rags to riches stories about young immigrants who worked hard and treated others well
Mary Harris Jones
Horatio Alger
Mark Twain
John D Rockefeller
5
Inventor who developed a lubricating cup that fed oil to a machine while it is still running
Granville T. Woods
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Elijah McCoy
6
What union shut down railroads until the federal government stepped in to keep mail moving?
United Auto Workers
American Railway Union
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
7
People who oppose all forms of government are called
Nihilists
Anarchists
Mutineers
Insurrectionists
8
Social Darwinism is based on Charles Darwin's theory of
vertical integration
natural selection and evolution
entrepreneurship
communism
9
Inventor of the "talking telegraph," a.k.a. the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Holley
George Westinghouse
10
Labor union founded by Samuel Gompers, organized independent craft union of skilled workers
United Auto Workers
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
American Railway Union
11
After using a process to refine oil, this is made and used as a fuel and to burn in lamps.
Kerosene
Atomic Energy
Whale Oil
Flatulence
12
Henry Ford used this to make automobiles affordable to the common man
vertical integration
horizontal integration
assembly line
monopoly
13
What labor union welcomed skilled and unskilled workers, women and African Americans?
United Auto Workers Union
American Federation of Labor Union
American Railway Union
Knights of Labor
14
Trunk lines are
major railroads
Pullman cars
baggage rail cars
wrinkles on an elephant
15
A means of communication over wires using a series of dots and dashes by using electricity
phonograph
telegraph
telephone
cell phone
16
The idea that the economy will prosper if businesses operate in a free market system is called
Socialism
Laissez-fairism
Communism
Free Enterprise
17
1886, a year of intense strikes and violent labor confrontations, became known as
Haymarket Riots
Great Upheaval
Year of the Riot
Progressive Protests
18
Who created the first working internal combustion engine-run airplane?
Orville and Wilbur Wright
Kitty Hawk
Orville Redenbacher
Miss Kitty
19
Capitalism is an economic system based on
private ownership of land
high tariffs
the right to a living wage
free trade
20
Who was the head of the American Railway Union who supported the Pullman Strikers?
Andrew Carnegie
Frank J Ferrell
Grover Cleveland
Eugene V Debs
21
A corporation that owns several businesses that produce the same product is using
street smarts
horizontal integration
vertical integration
hostile takeover
22
True or False. Exclusive economic control of an industry is called a monopoly.
False
True
23
Name of Chicago labor confrontation that began with an exploding bomb among police officers
Ludlow Massacre, 1914
Haymarket Riot, 1886
The Homestead Strike, 1892
Pullman Strike, 1983 - 1984
24
Why did the workers at the Pullman sleeping-car factory in Pullman, Illinois go on strike?
They wanted an eight-hour work day.
The factory was unsafe.
Their wages had been cut.
They had to work on Christmas.
25
"most dangerous woman in America" organized strikes for Knights of Labor
Mary Harris Jones
Gladys Bustamante
Emma Webster, "Granny"
Arlene Holt Baker
26
Which statement is not true about steel?
Steel is used to create skeletal frames of skyscrapers.
Elephants will not walk on steel.
Steel is resistant to rust and makes good nails.
Steel makes good bridges.
27
Herbert Spencer's idea that society progresses through natural competition and fit people rise
Bessemer Process
Spencerism
Social Darwinism
Communism
28
Who invented the lightbulb by figuring out that a tungsten filament will burn slowly?
Thomas Alva Edison
Elijah McCoy
Alexander Graham Bell
Christopher Sholes
29
Select one successful mail-order catalog company which provided consumer goods to rural areas
Saks Fifth Avenue
Sears, Roebuck & Company
Montgomery Ward
eBay
30
A corporation that controls businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process is
using perpendicular integration
using vertical integration
using horizontal integration
using parallel integration
31
Laissez-Faire capitalism believes government should have
intervention in the economy
no intervention in the economy
32
Who was the founder of Standard Oil Company?
George Westinghouse
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
33
Individual ownership of property is bad and means of production should be community held
Socialism
Communism
Free Enterprise
Laissez-Fairism
34
The Bessemer Process is a method that made the production of what material faster and cheaper?
Bronze
Steel
Iron
Copper
