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By the late 1800s, innovation and industrial diversification was greatly enhanced by
Corporate research laboratories
All of the following were major western industries in the late-nineteenth-century EXCEPT:
Fur trading
The Homestead Act of 1862
Gave 160 acres for a fee to settlers who would move to the west
In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
Pennsylvania and Ohio
All of the following are true regarding the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century EXCEPT:
It was highly regulated by the federal government
Which of the following was true of the Homestead strike of 1892?*
It was marked by violence (Likely)
By the late 1800s, most immigrant labor came from
Southern and Eastern Europe
The Rocky Mountain School of painting
helped inspire a growth of tourism in the West
The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of
horizontal integration
The decimation of American buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century
hurt the ability of Plains Indians to resist the advance of white settlers
The initial development of the steel industry was most significantly aided by the
invention of Bessemer and open-hearth processes
In the American business community at the end of the nineteenth century,
larger corporations tended to stifle competition with industries
During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California
lost ownership of large areas of lands
A key to Henry Ford's success in the mass production of automobiles was
moving assembly line
In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to
organize industrial production into many simple tasks
Mining in the west
saw individual prospectors move in first. followed by corporations
In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States
saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth.
In the late nineteenth century, the western agricultural economy*
saw the railroad become the most important factor in its development
In the mid-nineteenth century, the Plains Indians were
the most widespread Indian groups in the West
In the late nineteenth century, political "machines" in cities owed their existence to the
the rapid growth of urban America and the influx of millions of immigrants.
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, 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.
The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because*
they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept
The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of
vertical integration
The 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn
was a short-lived Indian victory
By the mid 1800's, the American west
was extensively, but not densely populated
The American artistic movement known as the "Ashcan School"*
was strongly influenced by Old World masters. (Likely)
The Dawes Act of 1887
was viewed by the United States government as a plan to save the Indians
In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between
white American ranchers and farmers
At the end of the nineteenth century, most Americans viewed leisure time as
Desirable and acceptable
During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life
Was isolated and often lacked any access to the outside world
The 1920 census of the United States revealed that
a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas
In the 1850s. the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians
assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
banned Chinese in the United States from becoming naturalized citizens.
In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires
began their careers from positions of wealth and privilege.
Compared with the first generation, second-generation immigrants were more likely to
break from their traditional culture and assimilate
Pro-business books in the late 1800s, like the works of Horatio Alger*
emphasized the value of personal character in business
In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." Frederick Jackson Turner claimed
that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life
In 1890 at Wounded Knee. South Dakota.
the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.
The "city beautiful" movement in the United States was inspired, primarily, by
the efforts of Daniel Burnham and other city planners
