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| said "the man who dies rich dies disgraced" |
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| was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America. |
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| was the president of Homestead Works |
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| was prince of the railroad robber barons. |
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| ran a company that Palace Cars for the railroads. |
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| organized the Workingmen's Party of California. |
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| consolidated the steel industry into the United States Steel Corporation. |
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| was the American Federation of Labor leader. |
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| founded of mail-order business. |
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| True/False: Power sources (such as water, coal, wood, electricity, and oil) were more expensive in the United States than in other nations around the world. |
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| True/False: American railroads received government support in the form of land grants, loans, and cash subsidies. |
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| True/False: The first transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory, Utah. |
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| True/False: Neither the government nor the public received much benefit from the support given to railroad construction. |
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| True/False: Cornelius Vanderbilt made most of his money in railroads. |
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| True/False: The number of inventions registered at the U.S. Patent Office remained fairly constant throughout the nineteenth century. |
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| True/False: Andrew Carnegie invented the process that enabled a dramatic increase in steel production. |
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| True/False: Andrew Carnegie once said, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced." |
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| True/False: Most Americans experienced a rising standard of living in the late nineteenth century. |
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| True/False: By the 1880s, most states had outlawed child labor. |
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| True/False: The sand-lot incident in San Francisco in 1877 led to animosity against Chinese immigrants. |
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| True/False: Anarchists oppose all forms of government. |
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| True/False: The Haymarket affair took place in St. Louis. |
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| True/False: The Foran Act made it illegal for federal or state government workers to join labor unions. |
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| True/False: American labor unions, unlike their European counterparts, seldom allied themselves with socialists. |
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| True/False: Like the AFL, the IWW admitted only skilled workers. |
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| From the end of the civil war to the turn of the century: |
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| The value of manufactures increased sixfold. |
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| All of the following contributed to the Second Industrial Revolution:Scientific research, interconnected national transportation, interconnected communication networks, and electric power EXCEPT |
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| International credit developed after bimetallism. |
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| A transcontinental railroad was NOT built before the Civil War because: |
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| North/South sectional differences prevented Congress from selecting a route. |
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| The first transcontinental railroad: |
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| Was built by the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroads. |
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| The most notorious of the railroad robber barons. |
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| The work of Cornelius Vanderbilt helps emphasize how: |
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| Business consolidation put the control of railroads in few hands. |
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| The Pennsylvania oil rush: |
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| Outweighed, in economic importance, the California gold rush of a decade before. |
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| Which of the following best accounts for the success of Standard Oil? |
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| Its corporate structure-known as vertical integration- allowed the company to grow tremendously. |
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| Are firms that control the stock of other companies. |
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| Made money in many areas, including oil, railroads, iron and steel, and bridge building. |
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| Carnegie gave $120 million of his money away for: |
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| Public libraries and higher education. |
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| Unlike Rockefeller and Carnegie, J.P. Morgan: |
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| The first billion-dollar corporation was: |
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| Who was the first to sell discounted goods through mail-order catalogs? |
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| Sears, Roebuck and Company: |
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| Published their catalog in Swedish, German, and English. |
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| During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and: |
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| A lot of other people were at least better off. |
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| For industrial workers in Gilded Age America: |
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| Working and living conditions remained precarious. |
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| Aimed to right the perceived wrongs against Irish coal workers. |
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| The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 was provoked by: |
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| Wage cuts that followed a depression. |
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| The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: |
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| Ended when the workers, who lacked organized bargaining power, returned to work. |
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| The Workingmen's Party of California: |
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| Was based on anti-Chinese sentiment. |
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| The National Labor Union (who was interested in labor and reform groups more interested in political and social reforms than in collective bargaining): |
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| Persuaded Congress to enact an eight-hour workday. |
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| The greatest growth of the Knights of Labor took place: |
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| In the mid-1800s, when the union had several successful strikes against the railroads. |
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| Were, theoretically, not concerned with the color, creed, or sex of members. |
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| Was blamed, probably unfairly, on seven anarchist leaders. |
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| The American Federation of Labor: |
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| Was concerned more with concrete economic gains than with social or political reforms. |
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| Took place in Pennsylvania. |
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| Violence erupted at the Homestead Works in 1892 when: |
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| Henry Frick tried to break a strike by bringing in Pinkertons. |
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| The Pullman strike ended: |
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| After mail cars were attached to Pullman cars. |
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| Which of the following statements about the Socialist Party of America is NOT true? |
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| Its support was confined to industrial workers in the Northeast. |
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| The Industrial Workers of the World: |
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| Had its origin in the mining and lumber camps of the West. |
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| The Socialist presidential candidate in 1912 was: |
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| The IWW was effectively destroyed when it: |
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| opposed American involvement in World War 1 (and Eugene Debs got arrested). |
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