Industrial Supremacy- Chapter 17
By 1900, the average yearly income of American workers
neither A nor B
At the end of the nineteenth century, the average income of an American worker was somewhat higher than the minimum required to maintain a reasonable level of comfort.
False
In his books, Horatio Alger
emphasized the value of personal character in business
By 1917, automobile production in the United States
had put about five million cars on American roads.
In the late nineteenth century, the railroad industry in the United States
included the nation's largest businesses.
The Haymarket Square riot of 1886
resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers
saw a rise in their standard of living, experienced a loss in their control over their own work.
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 did not exist.
In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?
steel
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 great railroad strike of 1877
was launched in response to a wage cut by the railroads.
In the United States, the steel industry first emerged in
Pennsylvania and Ohio.
In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires
began their careers from positions of wealth.
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.
Andrew Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth promoted philanthropy by the rich.
True
As the Knights of Labor declined, a rival organization that became known as the American Federation of Labor followed it to become the nation's most significant national association of labor unions.
True
By 1900, electric power was becoming commonplace in urban areas.
True
Carnegie Steel was a prime example of vertical integration
True
Congress's decision in 1885 to abolish the Contract Labor Law was a victory for labor.
True
Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was an example of a combination of horizontal and vertical integration.
True
The American oil industry emerged in the late nineteenth century largely in response to the needs of the steel industry.
True
The great railroad strike of 1877 was put down by both state militias and federal troops.
True