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Nation of Nations: A Concise Narrative of the American Republic, 3/e

James West Davidson, Historian
William E. Gienapp, Harvard University
Christine Leigh Heyrman, University of Delaware
Mark H. Lytle, Bard College
Michael B. Stoff, University of Texas, Austin

The New Industrial Order (1870-1900)

Multiple Choice


1	The Bessemer process provided a cheaper way to:
		A)	convert large quantities of iron into steel.
		B)	extract coal deposits from vast minefields.
		C)	refine petroleum.
		D)	produce electricity in urban areas.


2	By 1900, U.S. companies seeking to attract investment capital came to rely predominantly on:
		A)	the federal government.
		B)	research laboratories.
		C)	the stock market.
		D)	wealthy foreigners.


3	The pool of industrial laborers in the U.S. at the turn of the century:
		A)	dwindled as immigration slackened, causing wages to rise.
		B)	consisted mostly of African-Americans and Hispanics
		C)	found fewer jobs available due to mechanization and earlier overproduction.
		D)	increased as a result of high rates of immigration from abroad as well as heavy migration from rural areas.


4	The use of secret discounts to preferred customers by railroad companies was known as:
		A)	the tariff.
		B)	rebates.
		C)	pooling.
		D)	a trust


5	Gustavus Swift's meatpacking business was one of many that pursued a growth strategy referred to as:
		A)	rebating.
		B)	pooling.
		C)	vertical integration.
		D)	horizontal integration.


6	In his "Gospel of Wealth," Andrew Carnegie argued that:
		A)	the rich should act as agents for the poor, as they knew best what the poor really needed.
		B)	those who pursued wealth were like saints.
		C)	a "single tax" on profits made off of land would lead to social equality.
		D)	his success in seeking a fortune damned him.


7	Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward was a:
		A)	blistering account of John D. Rockefeller's methods.
		B)	popular pamphlet which advocated a "single tax."
		C)	vigorous defense of Social Darwinism and survival of the fittest.
		D)	utopian novel projecting a classless, harmonious society.


8	Which is NOT true of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
		A)	It was the result of public opposition to trusts.
		B)	It gave the government the power to break up big businesses.
		C)	It was Congress's response to election frauds
		D)	It gave the government the right to regulate interstate commerce.


9	The U.S. economy of the late nineteenth century was characterized:
		A)	by relative stability.
		B)	by steady growth, interrupted by minor recessions.
		C)	by a gradual decline.
		D)	by wild swings of booms and busts.


10	Taylorism stood for:
		A)	efficiency in production using careful time and motion studies of workers' movements.
		B)	employees living in company housing, buying from company stores, etc.
		C)	allowing workers to participate directly in corporate decision making.
		D)	preventing workers from forming a labor union.


11	The Knights of Labor was known for all of the following EXCEPT:
		A)	allowing women and African-Americans as members.
		B)	its success in winning a series of nationwide strikes.
		C)	its preference for one big union of skilled and unskilled alike, rather than elite skilled craft unions.
		D)	its ambitious agenda of reforming American society.


12	The Pullman Strike was resolved when:
		A)	the striking workers gave up voluntarily.
		B)	George Pullman finally accepted union demands.
		C)	the U.S. government stepped in to put down the strike.
		D)	federal negotiators worked out a binding arbitration agreement.

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