Deck 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Terence Powderly

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Philip Armour

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jay Gould

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John D. Rockefeller

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John P. Altgeld

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James J. Hill

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thomas Edison

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Leland Stanford

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
J. Pierpont Morgan

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Graham Sumner

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Collis P. Huntington

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Russell Conwell

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry W. Grady

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Samuel Gompers

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
James Buchanan Duke

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Andrew Carnegie

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Herbert Spencer

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Alexander Graham Bell

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Pittsburgh plus" pricing

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Social Darwinism

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rebate

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
scabs

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
consumer goods

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
horizontal integration

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
trust-busting

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gibson Girl

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
railroad "standard" time

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
land grants to railroads

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
injunctions

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Dana Gibson

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
stock watering

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"survival of the fittest"

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
vertical integration

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
company town

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
capital goods

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
trust

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
interlocking directorate

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pool

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pullman Palace Cars

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
lockout

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Union Pacific Railroad

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
yellow dog contract

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
anarchists

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois (1886)

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Mesabi Range

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
craft union

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"nonproducers"

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Standard Oil Company

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
United States Steel

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pure and simple unionism

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grange

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gospel of Wealth

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Central Pacific Railroad

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
socialism

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Bessemer process

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
closed shop

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Great Northern Railroad

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New York Central Railroad

Question 61

The greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it

A)enabled farmers to make a highly profitable living by shipping their goods across the country.
B)enabled people from farms and small towns to visit the big cities.
C)united the nation into a single, integrated national market.
D)made it possible for some immigrants to settle in the West.
E)developed a skilled industrial workforce.

Question 62

The two industries that the transcontinental railroads most significantly expanded were

A)textiles and fishing.
B)mining and agriculture.
C)banking and finance.
D)shipping and fishing.
E)electricity and telecommunications.

Question 63

Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called

A)pools.
B)trusts.
C)rebates.
D)interlocking directorates.
E)kickbacks.

Question 64

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 65

The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years was

A)agriculture.
B)mining.
C)the steel industry.
D)the railroad network
E)None of these choices are correct

Question 66

The national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with

A)cash grants from new taxes.
B)land grants and loans.
C)cash grants from higher tariffs.
D)reduced prices for iron and steel.
E)aid for construction of railroad stations.

Question 67

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Interstate Commerce Act

Question 68

Which of the following was not among the common forms of corruption practiced by the wealthy railroad barons?

A)Bribing judges and state legislatures
B)Forcing their employees to buy railroad company stock
C)Providing free railroad passes to journalists and politicians
D)Watering railroad stocks and bonds in order to sell them at inflated prices
E)Receiving kickbacks from powerful shippers

Question 69

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"Acres of Diamonds"

Question 70

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
American Federation of Labor

Question 71

In the case of Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state legislatures could not regulate railroads because

A)the U.S.Constitution did not permit the government to regulate private industry.
B)the state legislatures were acting on behalf of a private interest, Illinois farmers.
C)the state legislatures had provided the railroad company with state regulatory exemptions when land grant legislation was enacted to help create the railroad.
D)railroad executives had committed no illegal acts in their business.
E)railroads were interstate businesses and could not be regulated by any single state.

Question 72

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New South

Question 73

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Labor Union

Question 74

The United States changed to standard time zones when

A)Congress passed a law establishing this system.
B)the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks.
C)factories demanded standard time schedules.
D)long-distance telephones required standard time coordination.
E)All of these choices are correct.

Question 75

Much of the investment funds that enabled America to industrialize in the late nineteenth century came from

A)surplus wealth generated by agriculture.
B)the state governments.
C)private foreign investors.
D)individual Americans' savings.
E)the sale of confiscated Confederate land and property.

Question 76

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
American Tobacco Company

Question 77

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Knights of Labor

Question 78

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Haymarket Square

Question 79

Which of the following was not among the technological improvements that made the modern transcontinental railroad network possible?

A)Steel rails
B)Air brakes
C)Standard gauge tracks
D)The block signal
E)The electric engine

Question 80

The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the

A)New York Central.
B)Northern Pacific.
C)Union Pacific.
D)Central Pacific Railroad.
E)Great Northern.