Chapter 17 APUSH Multiple Choice

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

Great Britain and northern Europe.

In his books, Horatio Alger

emphasized the value of personal character in business.

In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

founded the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.

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.

The Haymarket Square Riot of 1886

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

In 1917, automobile production in the United States

saw 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 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 which did not exist.

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

steel

Eugene Debs played a leading role in what labor event?

the Pullman strike

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.

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

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

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

the use of interchangeable parts.

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 business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of

vertical and horizontal 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.

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

$290.

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

Europe.

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

Herbert Spencer.

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.

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.

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

Vertical and horizontal integration

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.

All of the following cities became important centers for steel production EXCEPT

Atlanta.

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

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 process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

All these answers are correct.

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 Knights of Labor

began as a secret fraternal organization.

The Molly Maguires were a militant

labor union in the coal industry.

In 1900, in regards to the work conditions in American factories,

laborers could expect to work at least sixty hours a week.

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 businesses controlled one-third of all manufacturing.

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

organize industrial production into many simple tasks.

The social theory of Social Darwinism

promoted the idea that capitalism offered all people a chance for great wealth.