Gilded Age Staar review

How nineteenth-century city bosses and their machines retained control? 

• Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support
• Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
• Using police forces to protect organized labor
• Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference

Use of barbed wire most associated with which outcome?

• Completion of Union Pacific Railroad
• End of open range and frontier
• Increased prospecting and mining activity
• Increased demand for and production of steel

How did vertical integration benefit companies such as Carnegie Steel?

• Allowed labor unions to participate in decision-making
• Controlled production and distribution processes
• Invested in health and education of employees
• Included local politicians on boards of directors 

Who were Exodusters?

• American Indians demanding return of tribal lands
• Eastern Europeans immigrating to US after WWI
• African Americans leaving South after Civil War
• Colonial Americans forming local militias during Revolution

Fact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century? 

• Working conditions
• Racial segregation
• Class discrimination
• Growing prosperity

The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century? 

• vertical integration
  
• monopolization
  
• industrialism 
• laissez-faire capitalism 

Based on your knowledge of the  Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?

• The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.
• The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.
• The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.
• Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.

How do monopolies harm consumers?

• They eliminate competition and allow for high prices
• They encourage competition, but increase prices
• They increase competition and lower prices
• They increase prices while increasing the quality of products

Who founded the American Federation of Labor?

• Samuel Gompers
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Eugene Debs
• Upton Sinclair

Most nativists of the late 1800s would most likely have supported the

• continuation of the contract labor system
• creating of settlement houses to aid new immigrants
• assimilation of Native American Indians into mainstream culture
• passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act