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