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The federal government contributed to the building of the national rail network by doing which of the following? |
Providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies. |
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Which of the following were the first two railroads that joined to created the first transcontinental line in 1869? |
Union Pacific and the Central Pacific
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Which of the following was not among the notable achievements of the railroad network? |
inspiring greater federal investment in technical research and development
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Which of the following was not among the corrupt practices commonly engaged in by railroad companies? |
importing illegal immigrants to build railroad lines |
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Which of the following best explains why the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 was a significant achievement despite its weaknesses? |
It was the first large-scale attempt by the federal government to regulate business in the interest of society at large. |
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A "vertical trust" like the Carnegie Steel Corporation essentially worked to do which of the following? |
Establish monopolistic control over every phase of business from raw material to final consumer.
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Which of the following best describes how financier J.P. Morgan exercised his economic power most effectively? |
Consolidating rival industries through "interlocking directorates"
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Which of the following men was not among the organizers of one of the large "trusts" of the Gilded Age? |
Thomas Edison
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What was his answer to himself when the Yale social theorist William Graham Sumner asked the question, "What do social classes owe each other?" |
"Nothing." |
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Large trusts such as Standard Oil and Swift and Armour justified their economic domination of their respective industries by claiming which of the following?
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That only large-scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at low prices.
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Which of the following can be seen as having some responsibility for the fall of the Knights of Labor? |
The Haymarket Square episode and membership of both skilled and unskilled workers
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Which effort represents the first attempt at curtailing the monopolizing and pricing practices of the railroad corporations during this period? |
Laws passed by state legislatures that regulated the actions and practices of railroad corporation |
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Which of the following economic developments was not significant in helping America to industrialize rapidly? |
sale of confiscated Confederate land |
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Which of the following two industries were most stimulated by the completion of the transcontinental railroad? |
mining and agriculture
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Which of the following best describes the Europeans' approach to ownership or investment in private companies in the United States during this period? |
Allowing Americans to manage the business unless an economic crisis occurred
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How did the American system of mass manufacture of interchangeable parts influence the behavior of U.S. capitalists? |
It stimulated U.S. capitalists to replace skilled labor with unskilled workers and machinery |
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What two technological innovations greatly expanded the industrial employment of women in the late nineteenth century |
typewriter and telephone |
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These economic strategies were employed by titans of industry, during this period (1865-1900), to maximize their corporations' profits except for which of the following? |
permitting workers to join collective bargaining unions |
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Which of the following best describes the intellectual viewpoint of Andrew Carnegie as expressed in the "Gospel of Wealth"? |
The wealthy should exhibit moral and social responsibility in their use of the God-given money.
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All of the following were major attractions for potential investors in southern manufacturing industries except: |
a well-educated and ethnically diverse work force. |
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Which entity was first prosecuted for alleged restraint-of-trade violations by the U.S. government using the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890? |
labor unions
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Despite a generally rising median wage in the nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to a number of factors except which of the following? |
new educational requirements for jobs
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Which of the following was not a strategy utilized by late-nineteenth-century employers to gain leverage over workers seeking to improve their wages and working conditions? |
closed shop
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Which of the following was not a difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor (AFL)? |
The Knights of Labor refused to condone striking; the AFL believed that strikes could help the workers' cause.
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Railroads changed the American landscape in all of the following ways except by |
limiting the number of people moving to over-crowded cities.
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