American History Chapters 12 and 13

(blank) was equally as important as natural resources in the nation's rapid industrialization

Workers who tried to organize a union or strike were often fired

What railroad began pushing westward under the direction of engineer Grenville Dodge?

Corporations issue stock to

The Great Northern became the most successful transcontinental railroad in part because of

Who invented the telephone, which revolutionized business and personal communication?

In response to the Supreme Court's ruling Wabash v. Illinois, Congress created the

In 1883, the Supreme Court set the stage for legalized segregation when it overturned

In late nineteenth-century cities, doctors, lawyers, engineers, managers made a growing

A steel company that owns the coal mines, limestone quarries, and iron mines is an example of

Economics of scale resulted in

By the early 1900s, Americans had transformed the United States into the world's leading

Which of the following states received the most immigration from China?

Many labor Unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants

The first nationwide labor protest wast the

According to the concept of Laissez-faire, prices and wages are best determined by the

As the nation was industrializing Congress, used tariffs to

Negativism in the late 1800's was focused on Asian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, and

In the Credit Mobilier scandal, Union Pacific investors got rich by

Tammany Hall was the name of

Combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one corporation is called

Loans, mortgages, and taxes are an example of a company's

What type of business does not produce anything itself?

Agreements among companies to keep prices at a certain level were known as

Claimed there would be a workers' revolution in which workers would create a socialist society

It made sense for big corporations to continue operating during poor economic times because

Railroad companies raised most of the money that they needed to build their railroads from

The railroad boom began in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the

Supporters of free enterprise believed that one reason the United states industrialized quickly

In the late nineteenth century, southern states passed Jim Crow in order to

In 1896, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson upheld the doctrine of

The 1894 Pullman strike was halted by

Which group was hurt the most by the Morril Tariff?

Social Darwinism was used by some industrial leaders to justify

One reason for America's industrial success was its

The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late nineteenth century changed American society by

Which of the following organizations formed exchanges to help farmers?