Ch. 24 Industry Comes of Age

Ch. 24 Industry Comes of Age

10th Grade - University

15 Qs

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Ch. 24 Industry Comes of Age

Ch. 24 Industry Comes of Age

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the national government helped to finance transcontinental railroad construction in the late nineteenth century by providing railroad corporations with

cash grants from new taxes
land grants
cash grants from higher tariffs
reduced prices for iron and steel

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the greatest single factor helping to spur the amazing industrialization of the post civil-war years was 

agriculture
mining
the steel industry
the railroad network

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the United States changed to standard time zones when

congress passed a law establishing this system 
the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks
factories demanded standard time schedules
all of the above

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Federal Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Anti-Trust Commission
Federal Communications Commission

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

revolutionized the business system
represented the firs large scale attempt by the federal government to regulate business
began the process of breaking up the railroad monopolies
invoked the constitution's interstate commerce clause

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

helped to build the nation into an industrial giant
was unable to find employment in technologically demanding industries
came almost exclusively from rural america
increasingly found work in agriculture

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

the steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of 

jay gould
henry bessemer
thomas edison
Alexander Graham Bell

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