apush chapter 23-26 practice questions set #1

Match each railroad company below with the correct entrepreneur.
A. James J. Hill
1. Central Pacific
B. Cornelius Vanderbilt 2. New York Central
C. Leland Stanford
3. Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
4. Great Norther

The only transcontinental railroad built without government aid was the

One by-product of the development of the railroads was

The greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years was

The United States changed to standard time zones when

Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called

Early railroad owners formed “pools” in order to

Efforts to regulate the monopolizing practices of railroad corporations first came in the form of action by

One of the most significant aspects of the Interstate Commerce Act was that it

After the Civil War, the plentiful supply of unskilled labor in the United States

One of the methods by which post-Civil War business leaders increased their profits was

Match each entrepreneur below with the field of enterprise with which he is historically identified.
A. Andrew Carnegie 1. interlocking directorate
B. John D. Rockefeller 2. trust
C. J. Pierpont Morgan
3. vertical integration
4. pool

Match each entrepreneur below with the field of enterprise with which he is historically identified.
A. Andrew Carnegie
1. steel
B. John D. Rockefeller 2. oil
C. J. Pierpont Morgan
3. tobacco
D. James Duke
4. banking

The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of

J.P. Morgan undermined competition by placing officers of his bank on the boards of supposedly independent companies that he wanted to control. This method was known as a(n)

America’s first billion-dollar corporation was

The first major product of the oil industry was

The oil industry became a huge business

John D. Rockefeller used all of the following tactics to achieve his domination of the oil industry except

The “gospel of wealth,” which associated godliness with riches,

To help corporations, the courts ingeniously interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment, which was designed to protect the rights of ex-slaves, so as to

The _______________ Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments.

During the age of industrialization, the South

The South’s major attraction for potential investors was

In the late nineteenth century, tax benefits and cheap, nonunion labor especially attracted _______________ manufacturing to the “new South.”

Many Southerners saw employment in the textile mills as

One of the greatest changes that industrialization brought about in the lives of workers was

The group most affected by the new industrial age was

Despite generally rising wages in the late nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to all of the following except

The image of the “Gibson Girl” represented

Most women workers of the 1890s worked for

Which one of the following is least like the other three?

Generally, the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century interpreted the Constitution in such a way as to favor

Match each labor organization below with the correct description.
A. National Labor Union 1. the “one big union” that championed producer cooperatives and industrial arbitration
B. Knights of Labor 2. a social-reform union killed by the depression of the 1870s
C. American Federation of Labor 3. an association of unions pursuing higher wages, shorter working hours, and better working conditions

In its efforts on behalf of workers, the National Labor Union won

One group barred from membership in the Knights of Labor was

The Knights of Labor believed that conflict between capital and labor would disappear when

The Knights of Labor believed that republican traditions and institutions could be preserved from corrupt monopolies

One of the major reasons the Knights of Labor failed was its

The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the

By 1900, American attitudes toward labor began to change as the public came to recognize the right of workers to bargain collectively and strike. Nevertheless,

By 1900, organized labor in America

The people who found fault with the “captains of industry” mostly argued that these men

Even historians critical of the captains of industry and capitalism generally concede that class-based protest has never been a powerful force in the United States because

All of the following were important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion except

The tremendously rapid growth of American cities in the post-Civil War decades was

The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was

The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the