Deck 16: The Making of Industrial America, 1877-1917

Question 1

The conflict at Andrew Carnegie's Homestead Steel Works was resolved peacefully.​

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Governments in the North and West practiced de facto racial segregation and discrimination which was rooted in common practices rather than overtly racist laws.  ​

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The period between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of World War I saw the largest migration of peoples to date within the borders of the United States as well as from other nations.​

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The New South was characterized by racial equality as well as increased industrialization. ​

Question 5

Berlin and Sao Paolo grew at faster rates than Chicago during the late nineteenth century.

Question 6

Economic growth during the Second Industrial Revolution ​was most rapid in

A) ​Great Britain.
B) ​the United States.
C) ​northwestern Europe.
D) ​Japan.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 7

Between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, the United States economy grew _________________ times over. ​

A) ​two
B) ​three
C) ​four
D) ​five
E) ​six

Question 8

During the late nineteenth century, industrial capitalism fully replaced eighteenth-century economic views about merchant capitalism.​

Question 9

Thomas Edison created the first U.S. commercial research lab in ​

A) ​1897.
B) ​1876.
C) ​1865.
D) ​1871.
E) ​1887.

Question 10

The consolidation of companies into larger corporations is referred to as ​

A) ​a monopoly.
B) ​vertical integration.
C) ​a merger.
D) ​a holding company.
E) ​industrial capitalism.

Question 11

George Westinghouse developed​

A) ​direct current.
B) ​alternating current.
C) ​the incandescent lightbulb.
D) ​a more efficient way to refine steel.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 12

A patented telegraph and coded alphabet was developed by ​

A) ​Samuel Clemens.
B) ​Thomas Edison.
C) ​Nikola Tesla.
D) ​Samuel Morse.
E) ​George Westinghouse.

Question 13

The moving assembly line was pioneered by ​

A) ​Thomas Edison.
B) ​Henry Ford.
C) ​Andrew Carnegie
D) ​John D. Rockefeller
E) ​Karl Benz

Question 14

Which of the following was not one of the transformative technologies of the Second Industrial Revolution?​

A) ​electricity
B) ​Bessemer steel
C) ​the automobile
D) ​more efficient harvesting equipment
E) ​None of these are correct

Question 15

In his works, Darwin applied his concept of natural selection to both humans and animals.​

Question 16

The Bessemer steel process was first developed in ​

A) ​the United States.
B) ​England.
C) ​France.
D) ​China.
E) ​Japan.

Question 17

The Bessemer process​

A) ​was patented in 1856.
B) ​refined iron 80 percent more cheaply.
C) ​produced much stronger steel.
D) ​produced steel more quickly.
E) All of these are correct.

Question 18

Mutualista societies were organizations formed by Mexican Americans ​whose dues provided modest unemployment insurance, burial insurance, job references and personal counseling to families.

Question 19

The great merger movement took place between 1865 and 1890.​

Question 20

Dollar princesses were the daughters of American elites who married European nobility to gain an aristocratic pedigree.​

Question 21

The term Robber Barons refers to ​

A) ​corrupt politicians
B) ​immigrants who are perceived to take jobs away from native-born Americans
C) ​wealthy industrialists who dominated the corporate United States in the late nineteenth century
D) municipal tax collectors
E) None of these are correct. ​

Question 22

Plessy v. Ferguson ​upheld the practice of

A) ​immigration quotas.
B) ​corporate monopolies.
C) ​restricting access to voting.
D) ​segregation.
E) ​Answers may vary.

Question 23

The pamphlet "Southern Horrors:  Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" was published by  ​

A) ​Homer Plessy
B) ​Rodolphe Dedunes
C) ​Ida B. Wells
D) ​Booker T. Washington
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 24

Jim Crow laws​

A) ​were discriminatory against African-Americans.
B) ​were passed after the end of Reconstruction.
C) ​created legal racial classifications.
D) ​created separate spaces and facilities for blacks and whites.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 25

The Page Act restricted the immigration of ​

A) Japanese men.
B) ​Chinese women.
C) ​Mexican men.
D) eastern European men.
E) ​people of Irish descent.

Question 26

Horatio Alger's stories  ​

A) ​were rags to riches stories of young poor boys.
B) ​were detailed accounts of how the poor lived.
C) ​were accounts of how people lived in the poor nations of Europe.
D) criticized American capitalism.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 27

The term Gilded Age was coined by ​

A) ​Nathaniel Hawthorne.
B) ​Mark Twain.
C) ​Henry David Thoreau.
D) ​James Fenimore Cooper.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 28

The Chinese Exclusion Act​

A) ​forbade Chinese Americans from voting.
B) ​restricted the amount of land that Chinese Americans could own.
C) ​barred laborers of Chinese ancestry from entering into the United States for 10 years.
D) ​restricted the types of jobs that Chinese Americans can hold.
E) banned Chinese Americans from settling in California.

Question 29

The Chicago frame enabled the construction of ​

A) ​trolleys.
B) ​skyscrapers.
C) ​bridges.
D) ​telephone lines.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 30

William Sumner's "What the Social Classes Owe Each Other"​ argued in favor of

A) ​socialism.
B) governmental regulation of monopolies.
C) ​undoing social reforms.
D) ​imperialism.
E) ​immigration reform.

Question 31

Which of the following is not true about Andrew Carnegie?​

A) ​He did not believe in charity or welfare.
B) ​He built more than twenty-five hundred libraries across the world.
C) He believed that the poor were lazy and that they needed to be taught skills to improve their lives.
D) ​He repeatedly agreed to collective bargaining requests from workers at his companies.
E) ​He erected concert halls.

Question 32

The gospel of wealth philosophy was developed by​

A) ​John D. Rockefeller.
B) ​Andrew Carnegie.
C) ​Horatio Alger.
D) ​James Garfield.
E) ​Jason Gould.

Question 33

Which of the following improvements were brought about as a result of the growth of cities?​

A) ​professional fire-fighter services
B) ​improved access to sanitation
C) ​improved transportation systems
D) ​steel frame construction of taller buildings
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 34

Plessy v. Ferguson was passed in ​

A) ​1890.
B) ​1896.
C) ​1900.
D) ​1905.
E) ​1910.

Question 35

The first signs of what would become the Panic of 1893 were felt in _________________,  in 1889.

A) ​the United States
B) ​Great Britain
C) ​France
D) ​Germany
E) Italy​

Question 36

During the global migrations of the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, _________________  received more immigrants that any other country. ​

A) ​Argentina.
B) ​Canada.
C) ​the United States.
D) ​Great Britain.
E) ​France

Question 37

The new immigrants ​

A) ​came from eastern and southern Europe.
B) were typically young.​
C) ​were mainly Catholic and Jewish.
D) ​worked the dirtiest and most difficult industrial jobs.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 38

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in ​

A) ​1880.
B) ​1882.
C) ​1885.
D) ​1887.
E) ​1890.

Question 39

Prior to _________________  Mexican immigrants easily crossed back and forth between the U.S. and Mexico border.​

A) ​1913
B) 1915
C) ​1920
D) ​1924
E) ​1932

Question 40

Among the transportation innovations that could be found in American cities by the turn of the twentieth century were

A) ​elevated trains.
B) ​subways.
C) ​cable cars.
D) ​improved roads.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 41

Coney Island ​provided entertainment primarily to

A) upper-class elite people.
B) ​working-class people.
C) ​middle-class people.
D) ​African Americans
E) ​Chinese Americans.

Question 42

The violence that culminated in the Haymarket Square Riot began two days earlier when demonstrators marched through Chicago in favor of ​

A) ​higher wages.
B) ​liability benefits.
C) ​immigrant quotas.
D) ​an eight-hour workday.
E) a five-day work week.

Question 43

The urban industrial labor force of the Second Industrial Revolution​

A) ​combined laborers of different ethnicities and nationalities.
B) ​differed greatly from farm work that was typically done alone or with family members.
C) ​allowed for the formation of camaraderie among workers.
D) ​led to the formation of labor unions.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 44

The Knights of Labor were founded in ​

A) ​1850.
B) ​1857.
C) ​1861.
D) ​1869.
E) ​1872.

Question 45

Between 1892 and 1901, whites lynched at least _________________  African Americans each year in racially motivated crimes.​

A) ​20
B) ​40
C) ​50
D) ​75
E) ​100

Question 46

While blacks faced racial persecution in the South, _________________  people suffered mob violence throughout the West.​

A) ​Japanese
B) ​Mexican
C) ​Chinese
D) ​Irish
E) ​German

Question 47

Das Kapital, Volume II was published by ​

A) ​Karl Marx
B) ​Friedrich Engels
C) ​Henri de Saint-Simon
D) ​Upton Sinclair
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 48

The Uprising of the Twenty Thousand was led by ​

A) ​Frances Perkins.
B) ​Ida B. Wells.
C) ​Anne Morgan.
D) ​Clara Lemlich.
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 49

The Pullman Strike took place after George Pullman​

A) ​laid off 33 percent of his workforce.
B) ​reduced wages by 25 to 40 percent.
C) ​did not reduce rents in spite of layoffs and reduced wages.
D) ​did not reduce prices at the company store in spite of layoffs and reduced wages.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 50

The _________________  was considered the most radical of all the Unions and its message appealed to many of the rank and file workers in the western extractive industries.​

A) ​American Federation of Labor
B) ​Congress of Industrial Organizations
C) ​Industrial Workers of the World
D) ​Knights of Labor
E) ​Teamsters

Question 51

The first nationwide confrontation between labor and capital came during the ​

A) ​Haymarket Square Riot.
B) ​Anthracite Coal Strike
C) ​Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
D) ​Pullman Strike.
E) ​Homestead Strike.

Question 52

Which of the following was not an ideology imported from across the Atlantic which was popular among U.S. ​workers?

A) ​socialism
B) ​syndicalism
C) ​capitalism
D) ​anarchism
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 53

______ sponsored the first U.S. branch of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)​.

A) ​Andrew Carnegie
B) ​John D. Rockefeller
C) ​J.P. Morgan
D) ​William and Katherine Booth
E) ​Jay Gould

Question 54

The Six Companies reached out to ​ _________________  immigrants.

A) ​Mexican
B) ​Chinese
C) ​Irish
D) ​Italian
E) ​German

Question 55

Scientific management aimed to ​

A) ​organize laborers into unions.
B) ​compel the national government to regulate big business.
C) prevent discrimination in hiring practices.
D) ​decrease work inefficiencies among laborers.
E) ​bring women into management positions in factories.

Question 56

The Field Museum of History was built in _________________  during the 1890's.​

A) ​New York
B) ​Boston
C) ​Chicago
D) ​Philadelphia
E) ​Los Angeles

Question 57

The concept of scientific management was developed by ​

A) ​William Graham Sumner.
B) ​Frederick Taylor.
C) ​John D. Rockefeller.
D) ​Herbert Spencer
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 58

The _________________  came to the United States in 1880 and set up operations in immigrant communities.​

A) ​YMCA
B) ​YWCA
C) ​Salvation Army
D) ​Knights of Labor
E) ​None of these are correct.

Question 59

The Uprising of Twenty Thousand was a demonstration by ​

A) railroad workers.
B) ​garment workers.
C) coal miners.
D) ​steel workers.
E) ​All of these are correct.

Question 60

Pinkerton guards were hired by corporations to ​

A) ​secure their vaults.
B) ​protect workers.
C) ​break-up strikes and intimidate workers.
D) ​patrol the streets of company towns.
E) protect the physical safety of business owners.

Question 61

Talk About:  Bessemer steel process​

Question 62

Talk About:  Henry Ford​

Question 63

Talk About:  holding company​

Question 64

Talk About:  George Westinghouse​

Question 65

Talk About:  Gilded Age ​

Question 66

Talk About:  vertical integration​

Question 67

Talk About:  long stagnation​

Question 68

Talk About:  Second Industrial Revolution​

Question 69

Talk About:  monopoly​

Question 70

Talk About:  patent trolling​

Question 71

Talk About:  modernity​

Question 72

Talk About:  surplus labor​

Question 73

Talk About:  supply chain​

Question 74

Talk About:  industrial capitalism​

Question 75

Talk About:  Samuel Morse​

Question 76

Talk About:  Karl Benz

Question 77

Talk About:  Panic of 1893​

Question 78

Talk About:  boom-bust cycles​

Question 79

Talk About:  great merger movement​

Question 80

Talk About:  Thomas Alva Edison​