APUSH Period 6 Review

Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Jay Cooke

• Thomas Edison

After the Civil War, Republican economic policies led to...

• huge budget deficits

• significant tax increases

• the dominance of large corporations

• sustained inflation

New corporate managers pioneered which system to rack expenses and revenues in the late nineteenth century?

• Cost accounting

• balanced spending

• line-by-line bookeeping

• the management revolution

As American industry expanded in the late nineteenth century, its energy source shifted from

• electric to steam

• water to coal

• coal to iron

• steam to water

The US had become the leading steel producer in the world by 1900 because of...

• incorporation

• government subsidies

• the transportation revolution

• the Bessemer process

Which of the following statements characterizes the employment of women in the American labor force during the late nineteenth century?

• more than 75% of all stenographers were female

• by the 1920s, the two-career marriage was the middle-class norm

• young women were not encouraged to enter the workforce until they married

• in 1890, almost half of all married white women worked outside the home

Which of the following were skilled workers with a relatively high degree of autonomy in the 1870s?

• Domestic servants

• Labor gangs

• Mechanics

• Assembly-line workers

The introduction of mass production in the late-nineteenth-century American economy had which of the following advantages?

• Mass production made work more interesting

• It gave workers a greater sense of accomplishment

• It gave workers greater control over the pace of their work

• Mass production increased workers' output

"It looks to me like slavery to have a man stand over you with a stop watch." This statement by an iron molder refers to

• scientific management

• industrial unionism

• yellow-dog contracts

• working conditions for breaker boys

The outcome for the implementation of scientific management was

• resistance from workers

• resistance from managers

• decreasing production efficiency

• the workers found unions less appealing