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