History 6.19.R
According to the lesson, which of the following was NOT a significant source of new workers in the
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The National Labor Union was more focused on _______________ change than on bargaining with big business.
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According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?
84
Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
A 10% pay cut among many rail company workers
Which of the following best describes a holding company?
A company that holds a significant amount of stock in other companies.
According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the results of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
A massive failure
Which of the following individuals called himself a "distributor" of wealth, believing that he had a duty to give back to those who had helped him acquire his riches?
Andrew Carnegie
Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?
Germany
Though he was involved in several industries, J.P. Morgan first acquired his wealth through which of the following?
Investment banking
Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age
John D. Rockefeller
According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?
Pennsylvania
Though he later came to dominate other industries, Andrew Carnegie was a manager in which of the following industries before 1873?
Railroads
Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingman's Party of California?
Restrict Chinese immigration
Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingmen's Party of California?
Restrict Chinese immigration
Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1888 to 1924?
Samuel Gompers
What organization came alongside Eugene V. Debs in the Pullman Strike?
The American Railway Union
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following U.S. Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?
The Justice Department
Which of the following labor unions had a radical utopian vision of an economic system based on cooperation rather than competition?
The Knights of Labor
Formed in 1877 out of the International Workingmen's Association, which of the following was the first Socialist political party in the United States?
The Socialist labor party
On May 1, 1866, the Knights of Labor organized a one-day general strike of 340,000 workers that eventually led to the Haymarket Affair. What was the goal of that strike?
The establishment of an eight-hour workday
When a company owns every part of a given industry from raw materials to final sale, it is practicing _________ _______.
Vertical Integration
Which of the following is true of most American workers' wages between 1860 and 1890?
Wages generally rose.
