Ch 17 & 18 (Industrial Supremacy & The Age of the City)

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In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America

saw charitable organizations try to limit aid to those deemed "deserving poor." aka... bruh

During the late nineteenth century, all of the following innovations occurred in consumer goods EXCEPT the

the formation of credit card companies.

At the end of the nineteenth century, the population density of Manhattan was higher than that of the most crowded cities of Europe.

True

The first American subway system came into use in Boston in 1897 true or false

True

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

VERTICAL INTEGRATION

Which of the following statements about the American railroad industry in the late nineteenth century is FALSE?' A. It included the nation's largest businesses. B. It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations...

B. It saw Congress outlaw railroad combinations.

To John D. Rockefeller, the great "curse" of business in the late nineteenth century was A. government regulation. B. cutthroat competition...

Cutthroat Competition

The open-hearth process of making steel

D. made the production of large dimension pieces possible.

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Europe

The Knights of Labor accepted both the eight-hour day and the wage system.

FALSE

In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of

Football

During the late nineteenth century, college education for American women

Had expanded significantly

In the late nineteenth century, the writer Henry George argued in favor of

a single land tax to replace all other taxes

Charles Darwin's theories of evolution met initial resistance from theologians scientists educators everyone at all all of the above

all of the above

In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by A. advanced rapidly economically B. placed a high value on education C. huddled together in ethnic neighborhoods D. both advanced rapidly economically, and huddled together in ethnic neighborhoods E. All of the above

all of the above

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all

In 1882, the first group of immigrants to be excluded from the United States on the basis of nationality were

chines

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 true or false

false

In 1894, the population density of Manhattan was

far greater than the most crowded European cities

In the early twentieth century, a principal goal of "Taylorism" was to

organize industrial production into many simple tasks.


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