Vigna's Answers Test 2
A horizontal integrated monopoly is best described as?
Buying out competitors and merging the new companies into one corporation
Viewing an American Industrialists in a positive way due to the impact they had on society was referred to as a ?
Captain of Industry
A vertical integrated monopoly is best described as?
Controlling every part of a business from raw materials to transportation, manufacturing, and distribution
Which of the following industries made the second industrial revolution possible?
Railroad
Viewing an American Industrialist in a negative way due to the impact they had on society was referred to as a?
Robber Baron
What event marked the end of the Indian Wars in the United States?
The Battle of Little Big Horn
The main reason many felt the "West" could never be settled and developed like the rest of the US during the Industrial Revolution was because?
The government was not active in developing and regulating the region
The second industrial revolution was marked by?
The increase in factory production, railroad construction, and mining activity
By 1890, the majority of Americans
Worked for wages
Andrew Carnegie and John B. Rockefeller
built corporations that dominated their respective markets
The Dawes Act of 1887?
divided Native American land into parcels of land for families
The impact of the second industrial revolution on the trans-Mississippi West was?
dramatic as agriculture grew
One significant impact of the second industrial revolution was
economic depressions were more frequent than in previous years
The Native American victory at Little Bighorn?
only temporarily delayed the advance of the white settlement
Bonanza farms west of the Mississippi River
typically had thousands of acres of land or more
