Industrialism and Urban America Practice Test

Front

Shares of ownership in a company is called...

Back

stock

Front

What is an example of a government policy that gave more power to railroad companies? Options: time zones, Transcontinental Railroad, land grants, bison hunting

Back

land grants

Front

___ is a process by which a company buys up smaller competing companies to increase market share.

Back

horizontal integration

Front

___ is the process of a company buying up different businesses necessary to producing its good or service.

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vertical integration

Front

_____ practiced horizontal integration with his company, Standard Oil.

Back

Rockefeller

Front

___ practiced vertical integration at his steel company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Back

Carnegie

Front

Who owns a corporation? Options: stockholders, one person, a union, government

Back

stockholders

Front

To many Americans, what was Marxism associated with?

Back

immigrant workers

Front

Marxism, anarchism and nativism caused people __________

Back

to mistrust unions

Front

What major population trend occurred in the United States during the industrial expansion of the late nineteenth century?

Back

The size and number of cities increased dramatically.