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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