Deck 24: Industry Comes of Age,1865-1900

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Student answers will vary.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Student answers will vary.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Student answers will vary.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Olney

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

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

Question 9

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

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Charles Darwin

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
track gauge

Question 24

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

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

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
rebate

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
plutocracy

Question 29

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

Question 30

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

Question 31

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

Question 32

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

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
standard time zones

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
land grant

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
pool

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
trust

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
injunction

Question 41

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

Question 42

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

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
scabs

Question 44

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

Question 45

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

Question 46

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

Question 47

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

Question 48

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

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Crédit Mobilier

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
lockout

Question 51

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

Question 52

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

Question 53

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

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
socialism

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
anarchists

Question 56

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

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Grange

Question 58

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

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
blacklist

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
nonproducers

Question 61

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

A) spread the U.S. population across the whole continent.
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

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

Question 63

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

Question 64

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

Question 65

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

Question 66

The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the

A) New York Central.
B) Northern Pacific.
C) Union Pacific.
D) Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe.
E) Great Northern.

Question 67

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

Question 68

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 69

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

Question 70

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

Question 71

Match each railroad company below with the correct entrepreneur.

A) A-4, B-2, C-1
B) A-3, B-4, C-2
C) A-2, B-1, C-3
D) A-4, B-3, C-1
E) A-1, B-3, C-4

Question 72

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

Question 73

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) electric power.
E) the railroad network.

Question 74

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

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:
New South

Question 77

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

Question 78

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

Question 79

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

Question 80

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