Question 1

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

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A)   steel
B)   railroad
C)   meatpacking
D)   coal
E)   oilF) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

Question 2

In the late nineteenth century, Daniel De Leon

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A)   created the ideas of laissez-faire capitalism.
B)   led the Socialist Labor Party in the United States.
C)   argued that large corporations were ultimately of benefit to American workers.
D)   led the American Federation of Labor.
E)   became a strong advocate of Taylorism.F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 3

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 4

Henry George expounded on the virtues of his "________" in a book titled Progress and Poverty.

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Question 5

In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

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A)   occurred as federal funding for research greatly expanded.
B)   led to a diversification of research interests.
C)   developed similar research goals as in Europe.
D)   was deemed unnecessary, since so many American university laboratories existed.
E)   centralized the sources of research funding.F) B) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 6

The great railroad strike of 1877 was put down by both state militias and federal troops.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 8

The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

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A)   suggested that industrialism was creating "organization men."
B)   believed that government intervention in society would be harmful.
C)   sought to apply Darwinian laws to human society.
D)   argued that people could do little to alter the economic stratification of society.
E)   believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 9

The 1894 strike against the Pullman Company was led in part by ________, the head of the American Railway Union.

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The answer of The 1894 strike against the Pullman Company...

Question 10

America's rise to industrial supremacy was not as sudden as has been suggested.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

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A)   described an America engaged in a second civil war due to concentrated wealth.
B)   promoted the virtues of economic competition.
C)   depicted a world presided over by an industrialist-king modeled on J. P. Morgan.
D)   accepted the necessity of class divisions in a capitalist economy.
E)   imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 12

In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?

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A)   Henry Bessemer
B)   Andrew Carnegie
C)   J. Pierpont Morgan
D)   Henry Clay Frick
E)   James J. HillF) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 14

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

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Question 15

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) A) and C)

Question 16

The great railroad strike of 1877

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A)   began in the West and spread east.
B)   saw the federal government refuse to intervene.
C)   was launched in response to a wage cut.
D)   saw organized labor gain its first major victory in the United States.
E)   resulted in only two deaths around the country.F) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 17

Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of

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A)   vertical integration.
B)   horizontal integration.
C)   diagonal integration.
D)   central integration.
E)   vertical and horizontal integration.F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

Question 19

Charles and Frank Duryea built the first gasoline-driven ________ in America in 1893.

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Question 20

Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful airplane flight in 1903

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A)   took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
B)   lasted just over one minute.
C)   did not in fact take off by itself.
D)   took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina and did not in fact take off by itself.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

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

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Henry George expounded on the virtues of his "________" in a book titled Progress and Poverty.

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The 1894 strike against the Pullman Company was led in part by ________, the head of the American Railway Union.

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

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The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward

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In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations

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

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In the 1870s, most immigrants to the United States came from southern Europe.

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The great railroad strike of 1877 was put down by both state militias and federal troops.

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Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry?

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In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

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Henry George sought to do away with social ills by levying a "single tax" on corporate profits.

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Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

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