Second Industrial Revolution: Chapter 6 Review

Question 1

This was a violent labor fight in Chicago that began when a bomb was exploded among the police.

Accepted Answer

Haymarket Riot

Question 2

This was the inventor of the lubricating cup that fed oil to a machine while it was running.

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Elijah McCoy

Question 3

The development of the automobile was speeded along by innovations in...

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oil refining.

Question 4

This was a method of making steel from iron using a blast of hot air...

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Bessemer Process

Question 5

This means a guarantee to protect an inventor's rights to make, use, or sell an invention...

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patent

Question 6

Who was Eugene V. Debs?

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Head of American Railway Union; supported Pullman Strikers

Question 7

The inventor of the telephone was...

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Alexander Graham Bell

Question 8

Between 1870-1890, the number of female workers...

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doubled.

Question 9

Following the Bessemer process, the cities of Gary Indiana, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh became...

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centers for steel manufacturing.

Question 10

This is the term for intense strikes and violent labor confrontations of 1886...

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Great Upheavel

Question 11

Which of these was one of the founders of Standard Oil Company?

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John D. Rockefeller

Question 12

Under Terence Powderly, the Knights of Labor...

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refused to support the rights of Chinese workers.

Question 13

What are trunk lines?

Accepted Answer

major railroads

Question 14

This was a philosophy developed by Karl Marx that proposes individuals should not own property.

Accepted Answer

Communism

Question 15

Who was the writer who told rags to riches stories that promoted the wealth of the individual?

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Horatio Alger Jr.

Question 16

What is the term given to people who oppose all forms of government?

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anarchists.

Question 17

How did the standard gauge for railroads improve rail transportation?

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Unnecessary to transfer to other trains when changing lines.

Question 18

As a result of the violence of the Great Upheaval, many workers...

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left the Knights of Labor and joined the Am. Fed. of Labor.

Question 19

Prior to the Civil War, railroads in the US averaged about...

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100 miles in length.

Question 20

Because he was disturbed by living conditions in the city, George Pullman...

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provided his employees with benefits that made him popular.

Question 21

Carnegie earned $1.20 a week on his first job, when he retired...

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he was the richest man in the world.

Question 22

The first successful oil well was drilled in...

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Titusville, Pennsylvania.

Question 23

Department stores succeeded because they...

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bought goods in bulk and could sell them at low prices.

Question 24

This was a means of communicating over wires by using electricity to send dots and dashes.

Accepted Answer

Telegraph

Question 25

Union organizer of Knights of Labor; "most dangerous woman in America"

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Mary Harris Jones

Question 26

Working conditions in the late 1800s were characterized by...

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long hours and low wages.

Question 27

Unlike a small business, a corporation...

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is owned by stockholders.

Question 28

A group of companies controlled by a single group of business leaders is an example of...

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a trust

Question 29

Which invention did NOT come out of Edison's lab at Menlo Park?

Accepted Answer

telegraph

Question 30

This is the idea proposed by Herbert Spencer; society progresses through natural competition...

Accepted Answer

social Darwinism

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Second Industrial Revolution: Chapter 6 Review

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