Deck 3: The Making of Industrial America, 1877-1917

Question 1

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

Answer 1

five

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 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.

Answer 3

All of these are correct.

Question 4

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

Question 5

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 6

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 7

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.​

Question 8

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 9

The moving assembly line was pioneered by ​

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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 16

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

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

Question 17

The Bessemer steel process was first developed in ​

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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 22

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 23

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 24

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 25

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 26

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 27

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 28

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 29

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 30

The Chicago frame enabled the construction of ​

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

Question 31

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 32

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 33

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 34

Plessy v. Ferguson was passed in ​

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

Question 35

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 36

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 37

The Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in ​

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

Question 38

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 39

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 40

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 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 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 43

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 44

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 45

The Six Companies reached out to ​ _________________  immigrants.

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

Question 46

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 47

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 48

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 49

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 50

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 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

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 53

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 54

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 55

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 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 Knights of Labor were founded in ​

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

Question 58

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 59

______ 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 60

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 61

Term for identification:  patent trolling​

Question 62

Term for identification:  Samuel Morse​

Question 63

Term for identification:  boom-bust cycles​

Question 64

Term for identification:  Thomas Alva Edison​

Question 65

Term for identification:  supply chain​

Question 66

Term for identification:  Bessemer steel process​

Question 67

Term for identification:  vertical integration​

Question 68

Term for identification:  Panic of 1893​

Question 69

Term for identification:  Karl Benz

Question 70

Term for identification:  surplus labor​

Question 71

Term for identification:  monopoly​

Question 72

Term for identification:  Second Industrial Revolution​

Question 73

Term for identification:  great merger movement​

Question 74

Term for identification:  long stagnation​

Question 75

Term for identification:  industrial capitalism​

Question 76

Term for identification:  Henry Ford​

Question 77

Term for identification:  Gilded Age ​

Question 78

Term for identification:  holding company​

Question 79

Term for identification:  modernity​

Question 80

Term for identification:  George Westinghouse​