Chapter 22 Check your understandings
What was the significance of the Supreme Court ruling in Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railroad Company vs. Illinois?
It prohibited states from regulating interstate commerce
All of the following are true to the Sherman Anti-Trust Act except:
It was very effective
Which two railroads joined to create the first transcontinental line in 1869?
The union pacific and the central pacific
Which group was most dramatically altered by the new Industrial Age?
women
In its efforts on behalf of workers, the National Labor Union won which of the following?
An eight-hour day for government workers
How did J.P. Morgan eliminate his banking competition?
By establishing interlocking directorates
In contrast to the Knights of Labor, what did the American Federation of Labor advocate for?
Concentrating on improving wages and hours and avoiding general social reform
To justify their economic domination of their industries, large trusts like Standard Oil and those of Swift and Armour claimed what?
Large-scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at low prices
Who did the Southern textile mills generally employ?
Poor whites recently off the farms
What was the basic belief of the social Darwinists?
Survival of the fittest
All of the following were nineteenth-century transcontinental railroad lines except:
The Canadian Railroad
Which of the following was NOT an effect of transcontinental railroad lines?
The cost of the railroads resulted in an economic depression
Who is associated with the Haymarket Square Riot?
The knights of labor
What was one of the most difficult adjustments many formerly rural workers had to make to the industrial system?
The strict discipline and regimentation of time
How did the government contribute to the building of the national rail network?
They provided free grants of federal land to the railroad companies
Who of the following was known as the most versatile inventor of the Gilded Age?
Thomas Edison
The interstate commerce act achieved all of the following EXCEPT:
eliminated government supervision of the railroads
What did a vertical integration like the Carnegie Steel Corporation accomplish?
it established monopolistic control of every phase of business, from raw material to final consumer
