Question 1

During the late nineteenth century,anarchists in the United States

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A)   were blamed for the Haymarket bombing.
B)   were linked with violence and terrorism in the public mind.
C)   became tied to the labor movement in the public mind.
D)   were both blamed for the Haymarket bombing and linked with violence and terrorism in the public mind.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 2

Andrew Carnegie elaborated his philosophy in a 1901 book titled ________.

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Question 3

In the Homestead strike of 1892,the Pinkertons were brought in on the side of labor.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

In the early twentieth century,a principle goal of "Taylorism" was to

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A)   make industrial workers more independent in carrying out their jobs.
B)   emphasize the importance of craft and quality in the workplace.
C)   encourage industrial workers to act creatively to solve production problems.
D)   create a large labor force of highly skilled workers.
E)   reorganize industrial production by subdividing it into many simple tasks.F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

Question 5

In the late nineteenth century,the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   the automobile industry.
B)   steam engine technology.
C)   freighters on the Great Lakes.
D)   the Pennsylvania Railroad.
E)   the oil industry.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 6

The principal agent of industrial progress in the late nineteenth century was the ________.

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Question 7

In the late nineteenth century,what benefits did the growth of corporate industrialism offer to the American working class?

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Question 8

Most of the late nineteenth-century business tycoons began their careers in poverty or lower-class circumstances.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The ________ process involves blowing air through molten iron to burn out the impurities.

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Question 10

What technological advances made in the first half of the nineteenth century continued to be of great benefit to businesses during the late nineteenth century?

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Question 11

Why were railroads such an important factor in the growth of industrial strength in America?

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Question 12

"Scientific management" was seen as a way to increase the decision-making abilities of employees in the workplace.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

At the end of the nineteenth century,the average income of an American worker was somewhat higher than the minimum required to maintain a reasonable level of comfort.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Lester Frank Ward was a sociologist who rejected applying Darwinian laws to human society.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

A central corporate body that would buy up the stock of various members of a trust and establish direct formal ownership of those corporations was called a(n)________.

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Question 16

During the 1870s and 1880s,most of the immigrants to the United States came from

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A)   Italy and the Slavic countries.
B)   England, Ireland, and northern Europe.
C)   Poland, Hungary, and Russia.
D)   Japan and China.
E)   Mexico.F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

Question 17

Prior to the Civil War,the steel industry in the United States

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A)   boomed as a result of the expanding U.S. Navy.
B)   emerged as an important supplier for railroad construction.
C)   largely replaced the iron industry.
D)   resulted in the construction of large commercial ocean freighters.
E)   barely developed at all.F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 18

Carnegie Steel was a good example of vertical integration.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

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A)   l public outrage over the police firing into a crowd of workers.
B)   resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.
C)   took place in Indianapolis.
D)   resulted in a strike at the McCormick Harvester Company.
E)   was the catalyst for several wide-ranging labor reforms.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

In 1900,regarding work conditions in American factories,

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A)   workers generally controlled the pace of production.
B)   laborers could expect to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week.
C)   job security for industrial workers had significantly increased since 1865.
D)   while safety conditions were poor, mechanization reduced the overall rate of accidents.
E)   first-generation workers generally had little trouble adjusting to the nature of industrial labor.F) All of the above
G) A) and D)

Exam 17: Industrial Supremacy

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