history chapter 5 week 1
Which of the following prompted the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
10% pay cut
Between 1865 and 1897, the national railway network grew from 35,000 to almost _________ miles of track.
200,000
According to the lesson, approximately how many African-Americans traveled to Northern cities between 1890 and 1910?
300,000
According to the lesson, the average steel worker during the Gilded Age worked approximately how many hours a week?
84
Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the steel-making industry?
Andrew carnegie
Which of the following individuals is most closely associated with the oil industry during the Gilded Age?
John D Rockefeller
Which of the following best describes a holding company?
a company that holds a significant amount of stock in other companies
According to the lesson, which of the following was the most important ingredient to the rise of big business?
a growing population and the availability of cheap labor
According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the results of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?
a massive failure
Which of the following individual is famous for inventing the telephone?
alexander graham bell
Because of its connection to the fringes of the labor movement, ____________________ caused many Americans to link labor unions with violent protest and terrorism.
anarchism
Which of the following individuals called himself a "distributor" of wealth, believing that he had a duty to give back to those who had helped him acquire his riches?
andrew carnegie
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act gave which of the following US Federal departments greater power to break up monopolies?
department of justice
Which of the following best describes laissez-faire economics, which was an important government policy during the Gilded Age?
did not say much
According to the lesson, the push and pull factors that led many Americans to migrate to cities were primarily ____________ in nature.
economic
Which of the following individuals became the leader of the American Socialist Party in 1897 with support from the American Railway Union?
eugene v debs
Marxist ideals gained influence in the United States through immigrants from which of the following European countries?
germany
The violent incident in Chicago led to the demise of the Knights of Labor, a powerful national labor union.
haymarket affair, knights
Which of the following best describes the management structure of most big businesses during the Gilded Age?
heirarchial
Which of the following individuals was the manager of the Homestead Works during the Homestead Strike and nearly lost his life in an assassination attempt?
henry clay frick
According to the lesson, which of the following provided the greatest source of new workers in the American economy during the Gilded Age?
immigration from europe and china
Though he was involved in several industries, J.P. Morgan first acquired his wealth through which of the following?
investment banking
Which of the following best describes the provisions of the Contract Labor Act of 1864?
it allowed the fed gov to pay for an immigrants way to america
For most of the nineteenth century, oil was mainly used to produce which of the following important commodities?
kerosene
According to the lesson, the term laissez-faire is French for
leave it alone
According to the lesson, Thomas Edison's most important invention was the __________________.
lightbulb
Which of the following individuals coined the term "Gilded Age?"
mark twain
Thomas Edison's invention of the electric ___________________ was particularly useful in industrial settings, because if freed factories reliance on rivers or coal to supply energy, allowing them to be located almost anywhere
motor
Which of the following was the first labor union engaged on a national scale made up of representatives from several craft unions?
national labor union
In The Search for __________________, Robert H. Wiebe argued that American's values changed dramatically as the nation entered the modern era in the Gilded Age
order
According to the lesson, an oil rush began in the 1860s in which of the following states?
pennsylavania
The National Labor Union was more focused on ____________________ change than on bargaining with big business.
politcial
Though he later came to dominate other industries, Andrew Carnegie was a manager in which of the following industries before 1873?
railroad
According to the lesson, which of the following industries was the first to produce modern corporations?
railroads
Which of the following best describes the major goal of the Workingman's Party of California?
restrict chinese immigration
Which of the following individuals led the American Federation of Labor almost continually from 1886 to 1924?
samuel gompers
Massive migration to cities saw the rise of densely populated sections of those cities called _________, where disease and poverty was rampant.
slums
Between 1860 and 1920, the United States accepted 28 million immigrants. Most of these immigrants came from which of the following parts of the world?
southern and eastern europe
What was the name of multifamily dwellings in many American cities that were usually between four and six stories high and housed dozens of families living side by side?
tenements
Which of the following individuals became the leader of the Knights of Labor in 1882 and helped it become a national organization?
terrence powderly
Which of the following eventually became the nation's largest labor union, reaching its peak at four million members in 1920?
the american federation of labor
Eugene V. Debs, who led the following labor union, played a key role in the Pullman Strike?
the american railway union
Which of the following inventions are attributed to Thomas A. Edison? [choose all that apply]
the electric motor, phonograph, storage battery, motion picture camera
On May 1, 1866, the Knights of Labor organized a one-day general strike of 340,000 workers that eventually led to the Haymarket Affair. What was the goal of that strike?
the establishment of an 8 hour day
Which of the following labor unions had a radical, utopian vision of an economic system based on cooperation rather than competition?
the knights of labor
Formed in 1877 out of the International Workingmen's Association, which of the following was the first Socialist political party in the United States?
the socialist labor party
The railroad industry created standardized__________ zones that we still use today.
time
According to the lesson, which of the following best describes a stock?
units that represent a company sold in order to build revenue
When a company owns every part of a given industry from raw materials to final sale, it is practicing ______________ ________________.
vertical integration
Which of the following is true of most American workers' wages between 1860 and 1890?
wages generally rose