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Industry
Mrs. Shelton
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did the federal government contribute to the building of the national rail network? | Providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies |
| What was the original transcontinental railroad, commissioned by Congress, which built its rail line west of Omaha? | Union Pacific Railroad |
| What was the California-based railroad company that employed Chinese laborers in building lines across the mountains? Who headed this company? | Central Pacific. Standford |
| What was the northernmost of the transcontinental railroad lines, organized by economically wise and public-spirited industrialist James J. Hill? | Great Northern Railroad |
| The expansion and prosperity of the railroad industry were often accompanied by what three business occurrences? | Rapid Mergers, bankruptcies, reorganization |
| What three things did the railroads create, stimulate, and encourage nationally? | Integrated National Market, Growth in Cities, European Immigration |
| How did the railroad most significantly stimulate American industrialization? | creating a single national market for raw materials and consumers goods |
| Who was the pro-business clergyman whose “Acres of Diamonds” speeches criticized the poor? | Russell Conwell |
| Characterize the railroad owners in their dealings with shippers, the government, and the public. | Unfair and Corrupt |
| Who was an aggressive eastern railroad builder and consolidator who scorned the law as an obstacle to this enterprise? | “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt |
| Who was the most efficient and public-minded of the early railroad-building industrialists? (He assisted farmers in the northern areas served by his rail lines.) | James J. Hill |
| Even though early federal efforts at railroad regulation were weak, what effect did they have on industrial competition? | brought some order and stability |
| What technique involved combining into one organization all the phases of manufacturing from the raw material to the customer? Who is known for this practice? | Andrew Carnegie’s “vertical integration” |
| What technique involved consolidating with competitors in the same market? Who is known for this practice? | Rockefeller’s “horizontal integration” |
| What practices by the railroad barons aroused considerable public opposition? | stock watering and bribery of public officials |
| How did the railroads affect the concept of time in the United States? | Introduced four standard time zones across the country |
| What was the Supreme Court case of 1886 that prevented states from regulating railroads or other forms of interstate commerce? | Wabash Case |
| What was the first most important federal effort at regulating industry? What agency was developed to carry out this law? What was its original intention and how was it used by the railroads? | Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission Originally intended to regulate railroads Often used to stabilize the industry |
| What two late-nineteenth century technological inventions especially drew women out of the home and into the workforce? | TYPEWRITER AND TELePHONE |
| Who was a former teacher of the deaf whose invention created an entire new industry? | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who was an inventive genius of industrialization that worked on devices such as the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion picture? | Thomas Edison |
| Who was a magazine illustrator who created a romantic image of the new, independent woman? | Charles Dana Gibson |
| What was the first of the great industrial trusts, organized through a principle of “horizontal integration” that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors? | Standard Oil Company |
| What was the first billion-dollar American corporation, organized when J.P., Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie? | United States Steel Corporation |
| How did large trusts like Standard Oil and Swift and Armour (make meat-spam) justify their economic domination of industry? | by claiming that only large-scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at lower prices |
| What laid the basis for huge new industries and spectacular economic growth? | new technological developments in steelmaking, oil refining, and communications |
| What product first caused the oil industry to thrive in the late 1880s? | kerosene for oil lamps |
| What was Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”? | the wealthy must provide themselves morally responsible |
| What fostered growing class divisions and public demands for restraints on corporate trusts? | growing concentration of wealth and power in the new corporate “Plutocracy” |
| Why did the attempt to create an industrialized “New South” in the late nineteenth century generally fail? | the south was discriminated against and held down as a supplier of raw materials to northern industry |
| Who was the Southern newspaper editor who tirelessly promoted industrialization as the salvation of the economically backward South? | Henry Grady |
| How did industrialization generally affect American workers? | a long-term rise in the standard of living but a loss of independence and and control of work |
| What was the black labor organization that briefly flourished in the late 1860s? | Colored National Labor Union |
| Which groups did the Knights of Labor organize? | skilled and unskilled workers, blacks and whites, women and men |
| Who was the eloquent leader of a secretive labor organization that made substantial gains in the 1880s before it suddenly collapsed? | Terence V. Powderly |
| What event hurt the Knights of Labor even though they had no connection with the bombing? | Haymarket Square episode |
| Who was the Illinois governor who pardoned the Haymarket anarchists? | John P. Algeld |
| In contrast to the Knights of Labor, what did the American Federation of Labor advocate? | Skilled, white, male, craftworkers |
| Who was the organizer of a conservative craft-union group and advocate of “more” wages for skilled workers? | Samuel Gompers |
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