Ch. 18 Worksheet
Morgan acquired the core of what would be the largest corporation in the world when he purchased
$480 million for the steel industry from Carnegie
Carnegie steel achieve the tremendous productivity the inner Carnegie insisted on
By forcing employees to work long hours under extremely dangerous positions for little pay.
The turn of the 20th century saw individual and entrepreneurship in the United States yield to
Financial capitalism
How did Morgan achieve his stunning re-organization in consolidation a business in the late 19th century?
Formed a community of interest, compromised of a handful of directors.
What was that important consequence of the civil service reform and the 1880s?
Gave business a greater influence of political parties
According to Ida wells, lynching was a problem rooted in
Gender as well with race
Which of the following developments was the key factor in the rise of the gilded age?
Growth of industrialization in US
What idea was promoted by the theory of social Darwinism in the late 19 century?
Progress is the result of competition where the weak will die in the strong will survive
Which of the following big businesses came to dominate American life in the second half of the 19th century?
Railroads
What did the interstate commerce act and the Sherman antitrust act have in common?
Regulation on Corporation
According to American businessman who are subscribe to the economic theory of laissez-faire, what was the role of the government in the economy
Showed not to interfere with economic affairs unless investing
Which group of Republicans fiercely support of the patronage system?
Stalwarts
Which relatively new building material both improve railroading in the late 19 century and depended on it?
Still produce to Bessemer process
How was it possible that Jay Gould was described as both the worlds richest man in the most hated man in America when he died in 1892?
Symbol of all the most troubling aspects of big businesses in US
How did the republican party attempt to foster unity for the election of 1880?
Terrorize citizens until they regained power of the Republican Party
The economic theory of laissez-faire gain political clout in the late 19th century because
The Supreme court was interpreting to Constitution to protect small businesses
The greenback Labour Party believe that the government should issue paper Currensy based on
The country's total wealth
To what term did the term solid south referral in the decades after reconstruction?
The states that voted Democrat for several years
Where had electricity been put to use in the United States by the late 19 century?
Urban areas
The presidents who served in the last part of the 19 century Ruther B Hayes through William McKinley
Were overshadowed by political parties national and state
President James Garfield unwittingly help the cause of civil service reform when he
Where's shot by Charles toe
Which statement describes the oil industry before John D Rockefeller's rise to power.?
Low entry costs allowed riotous competition
What was the main purpose of crude oil in the United States before the advent of the automobile?
Lubrication and kerosene
What was the outcome of the notion that blackfin were threat to white women in the south in the late 19 century?
Lynch by black mobs
Inver history of the stairs oil company published in McClure's magazine, Ida M Tarbell characterized John D Rockefeller as
Man who use the legal methods take over the oil industry
The industries that grew up around the revolutionary inventions of Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Alva Edison demonstrated that
Age of the inventor was becoming the age of corporation
Where did the south iron and steel industry develop?
Alabama
How did Alexander Graham Bell's telephone revolutionize both communication in business in America?
Allow local in cross country communication
What was the purpose of vertical integration, which was pioneered by Andrew Carnegie in the late 19 century
Allow them to place all aspects a new chief officer
Why were Irish Catholic voters offended by James G Blaine's campaign?
Blaine neglected to respond to a slur on Catholic voters.
President Grover Cleveland hope to increase the nations flag and gold reserves during the economic depression in the winter of 1894 through 95
Bonds
Prominent business leader of the late 19th century J.P. Morgan believe that
Consolidation and self-control were prefable to competition
Who first organize standard oil as a trust?
Control the key elements of oil in cornered the market for oil.
Which of the following was true of stairs oil in the 1890s?
Controlled more than 90% in the oil industry.
The tariff posed a threat to America is prosperity in the 1880s because
Created a surplus that wasn't producing goods
The Pendleton act of 1883 established the civil service commission and
Created a system so federal employees were chosen based on competitive exams
What was evident in the call for a new south in the decades after reconstruction?
Desire from southerners to go for ag industrial
Which of the following describes the gilded age?
Era marked by personal greed and a corrupt partnership between business and politics.
Having stated that the Paramont issue this year is tomorrow rather than political, supporters of Grover Cleveland in 1884 were chagrined to learn that Cleveland had
Fathered a child out of wedlock
Why did Rockefeller ultimately re-organize standard oil as a holding company in the late 19 century?
Legally combine competing companies
Who wrote the social Darwinism book what social classes over to each other?
Herbert Spencer
Which group enthusiastically supported the tariff in the 19th century
Industrialists
How effective was the interstate commerce commission, the nations first federal regulatory agency?
It was so weak in its early years that it served as little more than a historical precedent
Democrats dubbed the Republican dominated 51st Congress the billion-dollar Congress because it spent the nation surplus on
Lawmakers' own constituents
The Supreme Court's decision in Wabash versus Illinois 1886, which reversed its ruling in month versus Illinois 1877,
Led to the passage that led to the railroad
What message Andrew Carnegie promote in his Gospel of wealth?
Millionaire should be trustees and agents for the poor
What advocates of bimetallism referred to the crime of 73, they were talking about
Minting silver coins
Which of the following factors boosted 19 century real real construction in America significantly?
Monetary land grants from states and governments in US
How did American women respond to the denial of the right to vote in the late 19th century ?
Participated in temperance movements
Which of the following factors explain the higher voter turn out in national elections during the last three decades of the 19th century?
Patronage
