Industrial Supremacy- Chapter 17

By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers

neither A nor B

At the end of the nineteenth century, the average income of an American worker was somewhat higher than the minimum required to maintain a reasonable level of comfort.

False

In his books, Horatio Alger

emphasized the value of personal character in business

By 1917, automobile production in the United States

had put about five million cars on American roads.

In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States

included the nation's largest businesses.

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

saw a rise in their standard of living, experienced a loss in their control over their own work.

In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

state and federal laws to protect the rights of workers did not exist.

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

they had poor individual character.

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The great railroad strike of 1877

was launched in response to a wage cut by the railroads.

In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

Pennsylvania and Ohio.

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth.

To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was

cutthroat competition

Samuel Gompers was the leader of the

American Federation of Labor.

Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.

True

As the Knights of Labor declined, a rival organization that became known as the American Federation of Labor followed it to become the nation's most significant national association of labor unions.

True

By 1900, electric power was becoming commonplace in urban areas.

True

Carnegie Steel was a prime example of vertical integration

True

Congress's decision in 1885 to abolish the Contract Labor Law was a victory for labor.

True

Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was an example of a combination of horizontal and vertical integration.

True

The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in response to the needs of the steel industry.

True

The great railroad strike of 1877 was put down by both state militias and federal troops.

True