Chapter 17 Apush Review

On which factor did American economic growth in the late 1800s depend?

A rapidly growing population

What term was used to describe a labor organization based on skilled workers in a specialized field of employment?

A trade union

Which statement characterizes the recruitment of factory labor by American industry in the late nineteenth century?

Closed to blacks and unappealing to native-born whites, American industry relied increasingly on the labor of European immigrants.

Which organization emerged in the late 1880s to take up the issues Greenbackers had raised in the previous decade?

Farmers' Alliance

By the turn of the century, women held three quarters of which type of jobs in the United States?

Low-level office jobs

What led the U.S. Congress to pass the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882?

Intense political pressure applied by the Pacific coast states

Why was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 significant?

It brought the problem of industrial labor into Americans' consciousness.

What factor pushed increasing numbers of people to emigrate from Europe in the late nineteenth century?

The commercialization of agriculture

Which factor was a critical cause for the loss of the proud independence that characterized craft work in the nineteenth century?

The deskilling of manufacturing

The process through which American corporations created new procedures to administer their complex operations in the second half of the nineteenth century is known by what name?

The management revolution

How did the Knights of Labor believe that labor reform could best be achieved in the nineteenth century?

Through a cooperative commonwealth in which workers owned and ran the factories

Why were workers underrepresented in government bodies such as the U.S. Senate in the late nineteenth century?

Voters in urban areas were underrepresented compared to voters in rural areas.