Chapter 17 Industrial Supremacy

In the American business community at the end of the 19th century,

one percent of corporations controlled one-third of all manufacturing

In the early 20th century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

reorganized industrial production by subduing it into many simple tasks

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists

In 1917, automobile production in the U.S

saw nearly five million cars on American roads

in the late 19th century, industry in the U.S

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth

In the late 19th century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the U.S did so because

they were not fit enough to survive in the market

At its height in 1886, the Knights of Labor were led by

Terence V. Powderly

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

All these are correct

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

American Federation of Labor

During the 1870s and 1880s most of the immigrants to the U.S came from

England, Ireland, and northern Europe

In the 1870's, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Europe

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry

James J. Hill

Who among the following began to develop oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio

John D. Rockefeller

The first significant oil production in the U.S occurred in

Pennsylvania

In the U.S, the steel industry first emerged in

Pennsylvania and Ohio

In the late 19th century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

all these are correct

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the U.S

barely developed at all

The Kights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization

In the late ninetieth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege

The John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late 19th century was

cutthroat competition

The open-hearth process of making steel

made the production of large-dimension pieces possible

The Pennsylvania Steel Company was created by

the Pennsylvania Railroad

In the late nineteenth, century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all the following EXCEPT

the automobile industry

The business structure of Standard Oil is a good example of

vertical and horizontal integration

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

vertical integration

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism