history chapter 5 week 1

Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

10% pay cut

Between 1865 and 1897, the national railway network grew from 35,000 to almost _________ miles of track.

200,000

According to the lesson, approximately how many African-Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?

300,000

According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?

84

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?

Andrew carnegie

Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

John D Rockefeller

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 was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?

a growing population and the availability of cheap labor

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 individual is famous for inventing the telephone?

alexander graham bell

Because of its connection to the fringes of the labor movement, ____________________ caused many Americans to link labor unions with violent protest and terrorism.

anarchism

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

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following US Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?

department of justice

Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?

did not say much

According to the lesson, the push and pull factors that led many Americans to migrate to cities were primarily ____________ in nature.

economic

Which of the following individuals became the leader of the American Socialist Party in 1897 with support from the American Railway Union?

eugene v debs

Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?

germany

The violent incident in Chicago led to the demise of the Knights of Labor, a powerful national labor union.

haymarket affair, knights

Which of the following best describes the management structure of most big businesses during the Gilded Age?

heirarchial

Which of the following individuals was the manager of the Homestead Works during the Homestead Strike and nearly lost his life in an assassination attempt?

henry clay frick

According to the lesson, which of the following provided the greatest source of new workers in the American economy during the Gilded Age?

immigration from europe and china

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 best describes the provisions of the Contract Labor Act of 1864?

it allowed the fed gov to pay for an immigrants way to america

For most of the nineteenth century, oil was mainly used to produce which of the following important commodities?

kerosene

According to the lesson, the term laissez-faire is French for

leave it alone

According to the lesson, Thomas Edison's most important invention was the __________________.

lightbulb

Which of the following individuals coined the term "Gilded Age?"

mark twain

Thomas Edison's invention of the electric ___________________ was particularly useful in industrial settings, because if freed factories reliance on rivers or coal to supply energy, allowing them to be located almost anywhere

motor

Which of the following was the first labor union engaged on a national scale made up of representatives from several craft unions?

national labor union

In The Search for __________________, Robert H. Wiebe argued that American's values changed dramatically as the nation entered the modern era in the Gilded Age

order

According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?

pennsylavania

The National Labor Union was more focused on ____________________ change than on bargaining with big business.

politcial

Though he later came to dominate other industries, Andrew Carnegie was a manager in which of the following industries before 1873?

railroad

According to the lesson, which of the following industries was the first to produce modern corporations?

railroads

Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingman's Party of California?

restrict chinese immigration

Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1886 to 1924?

samuel gompers

Massive migration to cities saw the rise of densely populated sections of those cities called _________, where disease and poverty was rampant.

slums

Between 1860 and 1920, the United States accepted 28 million immigrants. Most of these immigrants came from which of the following parts of the world?

southern and eastern europe

What was the name of multifamily dwellings in many American cities that were usually between four and six stories high and housed dozens of families living side by side?

tenements

Which of the following individuals became the leader of the Knights of Labor in 1882 and helped it become a national organization?

terrence powderly

Which of the following eventually became the nation's largest labor union, reaching its peak at four million members in 1920?

the american federation of labor

Eugene V. Debs, who led the following labor union, played a key role in the Pullman Strike?

the american railway union

Which of the following inventions are attributed to Thomas A. Edison? [choose all that apply]

the electric motor, phonograph, storage battery, motion picture camera

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 8 hour day

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

The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.

time

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes a stock?

units that represent a company sold in order to build revenue

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