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Why was it necessary for railroads and land speculators to promote settlement of the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century?

Americans thought of the area as the Great American Desert.

Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?

Andrew Carnegie

The federal government responded to the problem of discrimination against the Chinese in nineteenth-century California by

Barring Chinese immigration to the United States in 1882.

New corporate managers pioneered which system to track expenses and revenues in the late nineteenth century?

Cost accounting.

What did the Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Homestead Strike of 1892 have in common?

Government troops helped put down both strikes

Which of the following describes the Homestead Act of 1862?

Homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land.

Which of the following were skilled workers with a relatively high degree of autonomy in the 1870s?

Machinists

The introduction of mass production in the late-nineteenth-century American economy had which of the following advantages?

Mass production increased workers' output.

Why has the labor movement always been relatively weak in American politics?

Most industrial workers live in urban areas and cities, which are underrepresented in Congress.

Why was clerical and office work appealing to white working-class women in the late nineteenth century?

Office work was cleaner and better paid than domestic service or factory work.

The Great Strike of 1877 involved workers in which industry?

Railroads

Which of the following describes vertically integrated corporations?

Such corporations controlled all aspects of their operations' businesses.

Why was the American Federation of Labor more successful than the Knights of Labor in the late nineteenth century.

The AFL focused on goals such as better wages, hours, and working conditions

The United States had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of

The Bessemer process.

Why was the Haymarket incident of 1886 significant?

The incident led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor.

Why was the strike by steelworkers at Homestead, Pennsylvania, significant?

The lockout represented Carnegie's effort to break the plant's union.

Which of the following statements describes the experiences of the new immigrants who entered the United States between 1880 and 1920?

They often planned on working and saving money for a few years before returning home.

What did Andrew Carnegie, Gustavus Swift, and John D. Rockefeller have in common?

They succeeded through vertical integration.

Why did Chinese immigrants come to the United States in the nineteenth century?

They were motivated by poverty and upheaval in southern China.

Which of the following arguments did Andrew Carnegie make in his famous 1889 essay "Wealth" (later called "The Gospel of Wealth")?

Though industrialization increased the gap between rich and poor, everyone's standard of living rose.

How did John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Corporation come to control 95 percent of the nation's oil refining capacity by the 1880s?

Through predatory pricing and the creation of the trust

The Knights of Labor advocated which of the following reforms in their 1878 platform?

Workplace safety laws

The Knights of Labor, who did they discriminate against? Who wasn't allowed to join?

by excluding the Chinese.

Which business strategy did John D. Rockefeller pioneer in the late nineteenth century?

horizontal integration

New immigration patterns in the early twentieth century reflected growing emigration from?

southern and Eastern Europe