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HIS 109 Final
HIS 109 Final "Industrialization"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was one of the key goals for which striking workers fought in the late 19th century? | an 8 hour workday |
| Which investment later helped John D. Rockefeller create the Standard Oil Company of Ohio? | refining crude oil into kerosene |
| Which entrepreneur championed the idea that America's tycoons owed a debt to society for their successes? | Andrew Carnegie |
| What was the method by which John D. Rockefeller grew the Standard Oil Company through mergers and acquisitions of similar companies? | horizontal integration |
| The US first large business bureaucracies began within which industry? | railroad |
| Which US regions natural resources made it a key area for the production of iron and steel in the late 1800s? | the Midwest |
| What was an immediate result of the widespread use of the Bessemer converter in the US steel industry? | The price of steel plummeted, allowing for more metal goods to be made. |
| Which inventors version of the telephone is most like the modern telephone used today? | Thomas Alva Edison |
| The ideas of Social Darwinsm were pioneered by | Herbert Spencer |
| What does the term "robber baron" refer to? | a businessman who is believed to exploit workers and bend laws |
| Which events at the end of the 19th century all but crushed the labor movement for the following 40 years? | The Homestead Steel strike and the Pullman strike |
| Which business distributed more than a million copies of its mail-order catalog annually due to its popularity among farmers and rural Americans? | Sears, Roebuck, & Company |
| What business practice allowed people to take part in the new consumer culture? | selling on credit |
| Which of these was not invented by Thomas Edison? | typewriter |
| The average factory work day in the Gilded Age was | 60 hours |
| What do the terms Pullman and Haymarket have in common? | they represent labor disputes |
| What was the "consumers Bible"? | Sears catalog |
| Who was actually known as the first robber baron? | Jay Gould |
| To avoid the legalities of trusts and monopolies, Rockefeller invented the | holding company |
| Who were men who damaged mines and murdered to bring attention to coal mines? | Molly McGuires |
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