Industrial Age US history part 1

Question 1

Which of the following is a large, legal public business which is owned by individual shareholders?

Accepted Answer

corporation

Question 2

Which of the following did NOT lead to the Industrial boom of the early 1900s?

Accepted Answer

Labor union movement

Question 3

The Bessemer Process was a method used to mass produce what?

Accepted Answer

Steel

Question 4

Which of the following purchases by Carnegie illustrates Vertical Integration?

Accepted Answer

Daton's Coal Mine

Question 5

In which of the following events (resulting from a strike) was a bomb tossed into a crowd?

Accepted Answer

The Haymarket Affair

Question 6

All of the following were tools of labor unions EXCEPT...

Accepted Answer

Wage-garnishing

Question 7

The invention of the Distribution of Electricity (by Thomas Edison) allowed...

Accepted Answer

prisons to begin using the electric chair, Factories to be built away from rivers

Question 8

Which of the following phrases defines how the US Government would limit involvement with business?

Accepted Answer

Laissez Faire

Question 9

Which labor union was known to accept all races, genders, and skills into its ranks?

Accepted Answer

Knights of Labor

Question 10

Leader of the skilled labor union, the American Federation of Labor

Accepted Answer

Samuel Gompers

Question 11

Which of the following tycoons became a dominant shipping and railroad leader?

Accepted Answer

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Question 12

Which health condition did Rockefeller develop later in life?

Accepted Answer

He lost all the hair on his entire body

Question 13

Which of the following gave the federal government the power to control railroad prices?

Accepted Answer

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a good example of Socialism?

Accepted Answer

tax-free income

Question 15

Which of the following Supreme Court cases helped states regulate railroads?

Accepted Answer

Munn v. Illinois

Question 16

Who of the following was the socialist leader of the American Railway Union?

Accepted Answer

Eugene Debs

Question 17

What was the cause of death of JP Morgan's bulldog?

Accepted Answer

Took his own life

Question 18

Strikebreakers called in to work by business owners while laborers were on strike...

Accepted Answer

Scabs

Question 19

Which of the following individuals founded US Steel by purchasing Carnegie Steel?

Accepted Answer

JP Morgan

Question 20

A Holding Company is best described as...

Accepted Answer

A semi-legal monopoly formed after the Sherman Act (1890)

Question 21

This piece of legislation allowed the government to supervise Railroad business

Accepted Answer

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 22

Social Darwinism was used to explain...

Accepted Answer

why many were poor and few were very wealthy in 1800s

Question 23

What was the name of Andrew Carnegie's pet dog?

Accepted Answer

Laddie

Question 24

Times Zones were created to benefit...

Accepted Answer

Railroads

Question 25

Which of the following inventors developed Alternating Current (AC)?

Accepted Answer

Nikola Tesla

Question 26

Who invented the telephone?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Graham Bell

Question 27

Marry Harris Jones made huge leaps towards which of the following reforms?

Accepted Answer

child labor laws

Question 28

At which location did 146 women die in a factory fire?

Accepted Answer

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Question 29

In the late 19th century, which of the following groups desired Socialism in the US?

Accepted Answer

Laborers

Question 30

Some of US society viewed Industrialists like Carnegie as Robber Barons because...

Accepted Answer

They removed competition and cut workers' wages

Industrial Age US history part 1

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Industrial Age US history part 1

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