Immigration and Industry 1

Andrew Carnegie was a "captain" of what industry?

• automobile
• communications
• oil
• steel

Standard guage, standard time, and the Pullman Car all had a tremendous impact on what industry?

• airline
• automobile
• maritime
• railroad

The most important reason for the growth of labor unions in the latter half of the 19th century was 

• the passage of the Sherman anti-trust Act
• the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission
• the forceful leadership of the newly arriving immigrants
• the way the workers were treated by big business and big industry

In capitalist economies, prices are 

• usually unfair
• set by the central government
• used to ensure social equality
• determined by supply and demand

The Bessemer Process was an innovation in the production of cheaper, stronger 

• houses
• iron
• mines
• steel

Samuel Gompers was a leading proponent of what industrial issue?

• vertical integration
• the formation of trusts
• the crushing of labor unions
• the formation of labor unions

This controversial event in Chicago (1886) resulted in seven police and four protester fatalities, as well as greatly discrediting the union movement.

• Wrigley Riot
• Pullman Strike
• Haymarket Riot
• Homestead Strike

The Pullman Strike (1894) was significant in American Labor history because it showed that

• unions were powerful enough to break the restrictions placed on them by mangement
• unions were infiltrated by anarchists after people were killed during the protest in Chicago
• non-violent civil disobedience was a sucessful way to protest racial segregation in the "Jim Crow" south
• the needs and concern of union members mattered less to the government than thee needs and concerns of industrial executives

In the 19th Century, John D. Rockefeller was MOST associated with which company?

• U.S. Steel
• Standard Oil
• General Motors
• American Telephone and Telegraph

Which of these would best describe an immediate effect of the invention and mass production of the light bulb?

• time became standardized
• agriculture worked longer hours
• railroad companies expanded routes
• longer factory hours for all workers