APUSH Chapter 17

During the 1870s and 1880s, most of the immigrants to the United States came from

England, Ireland, and northern Europe.

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Europe.

In his books, Horatio Alger

emphasized the value of personal character in business.

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.

During the late nineteenth century, child labor in the United States

increased significantly.

Until its repeal in 1885, the Labor Contract Law

put many new immigrants in debt to American businessmen.

In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

reorganize industrial production by subdividing 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 United States

saw nearly five million cars on American roads.

The Pullman strike of 1894

saw the president of the United States order federal troops to break the strike.

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

The Pennsylvania Railroad was created by

the Pennsylvania Steel Company.

In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT

the automobile industry.

A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was

the moving assembly line.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

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

the total failure of state and federal governments to pass legislation that would protect the rights of workers.

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

they were not fit enough to survive in the market.

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

took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The business structure of Standard Oil was 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.

In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States

saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?

It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations.

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?

James J. Hill

Who among the following began to develop an oil empire by taking control of competing oil companies in Ohio?

John D. Rockefeller

By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers

None of these answers is correct.

In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in

Pennsylvania and Ohio.

The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in

Pennsylvania.

Eugene V. Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

Pullman strike

At its height in 1886, the Knights of Labor were led by

Terence V. Powderly.

Which of the following events did NOT occur during the Homestead strike of 1892?

The Amalgamated trade union won the strike.

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege.

The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.

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.

In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was

Herbert Spencer.

In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was

$290.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

All these answers are correct.

The theory of Social Darwinism

was used to justify the social consequences of industrial capitalism.

During the late nineteenth century, anarchists in the United States

All these answers are correct.

During the late nineteenth century, the growth of large corporations was helped by

All these answers are correct.

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

All these answers are correct.

The Knights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization.

In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes.

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

labor union in the coal industry.

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,

laborers could expect to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week.

In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

led the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

led to a diversification of research interests.

The open-hearth process of making steel

made the production of large-dimension pieces possible.

In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,

one percent of corporations controlled one-third of all manufacturing.