american studies: unit 2 test
Entrepreneur
A person who organizes, operates, and assumes the risk for a business venture?
The unions advocated an eight-hour workday and "equal pay for equal work " by men and women
What did labor unions advocate?
a. Natural Resources b. Government support for businesses c. Cheap labor from a growing urban population d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
What factors fueled the industrialization revolution in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
To create cheap electrical lighting
What was one of Thomas Edison's main goals?
unhealthy and dangerous
Which of these best describes working conditions in factories of the late 1800s?
a. The lack of safety rules for work places b. The rise of monopolies owning entire industries c. Child laborers working in dangerous conditions and being paid little d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Which one of these options provide evidence that the Gilded Age was a time of laissez faire government?
Many people moved to farms
Which statement would NOT be true about the years 1870- 1900?
Thomas Edison
Who invented the light bulb?
Alexander Graham Bell
Who invented the telephone?
Andrew Carnegie
Who wrote the "Gospel of Wealth" and believed that men like him had a responsibility to spend their money to benefit the greater good?
a. Natural and urban resources were plentiful in the North.This answer is incorrect. b. The South lacked capital. c. The North owned 90 percent of the railroads in the South. d. ALL OF THE ABOVE
Why did the nation's business boom bypass the South?
John Rockefeller
oil
a small number of industrial leaders
Industrial growth in the United States lead to a concentration of wealth in the hands of?
Allowed the Federal Government to supervise railroad activities
Interstate Commerce Act
their families needed the money to survive
Many children left school to work in factories because?
At least a safe place to work that is free of accidents
What conditions did many factory workers NOT face in the late 19th century?
Women demanded better working conditions, equal pay for equal work, and an end to child labor.
What demands did women have in the labor movement?
A company that laid railroad tracks for 2-3 times over cost, pocket the profit and paid off congressmen
Credit Mobilier
robber barons
During the 1880s, critics of industrial leaders referred to them as?
firing union organizers
Employers fought the power of unions by?
Automoblie
Gasoline is a byproduct of the refining process and originally was thrown away. What invention would make gasoline popular in the United States?
Owned a factory that made railroad cars
George M. Pullman
The railroads used steel and coal and delivered both to new markets.
How did the railroads both benefit from and contribute to the industrialization of the United States?
Upheld Granger Laws
Munn vs. Illinois
telegraph
Samuel Morse helped start a communication revolution when he tooK out a patent on the?
the smartest and strongest members of society would grow rich
Supporters of Social Darwinism believed that if government did not interfere with business?
arbitration and use of strikes as a last resort
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) differed from the Knights of Labor (AFL) in that the Knights of Labor focused on..?
Chinese Immigrants
The Central Pacific Railroad was predominantly built by which group of people?
Chinese Immigrants
The Transcontinental Railroad was mainly built by which group of people?
a. Irish Immigrants b. Out of work Civil War Veterans c. BOTH A & B
The Union Pacific Railroad hired what type of people to build their railroads?
a new age of American construction with the use of steel
The development of the Bessemer process led to?
using federal troops to end strikes
The federal government responded to large strikes by?
Railroad lines that ran from the east to west coasts of the United States
Transcontinental Railroad
J.P Morgan
banking
Cornelius Vanderbilt
shipping
Andrew Carniegie
steel