APUSH Chapter 24

match the following:

A: Rockefeller // 1: known for steel

B: Carnegie // 2: known for tobacco

C: JP Morgan // 3: known for oil

D: James Duke // 4: known for being the banker's banker

• A:3, B:4, C:2, D:3

• A:3, B:1, C:4, D:2

• A:1, B:3, C:4, D:2

• A:4, B:2, C:3, D:1

What invention helped women get into the work force

• cash register

• type write

• telephone

• stock ticker

The national government helped finance the transcontinental railroad by providing which of the following?

• cash grants from new taxes

• cash grants from higher tariffs

• land grants

• reduced prices for iron and steel

Agreements by railroads to divide business in an area and share the profits were called...

• pools

• holding companies

• interlocking directorates

• trusts

The United States created time zones because...

• congress passed a law establishing the system

• the major rail lines needed to make keeping schedules easier

• factories demanded standard time schedules

• all of the above

In Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad Company vs. Illinois, the supreme court ruled that...

• railroad companies had to pay for land

• states could regulate interstate commerce

• states could deny railroads use of land

• states had no power over interstate commerce

What did president Grover Clevelend do to help citizens and punish railroads?

• raise in minimum wage for railroad workers

• open up land on land grants to the publlic

• lower taxes and deacrease government funding of railroads

• lower the price of a ride on all railroads

The interstate commerce act resulted in all of the following except...

• an end to rebates and pools

• railroads being required to publish rates

• limited government funding of railroads

• unfair discrimmination towards shippers forbade

Who contrubited to the invention of the standard gauge?

• James Hill

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Alexander Gram Bell

• Louis Sullivan

What impact did the transcontinental railroad NOT have on the united states?

• population density in the west increased dramatically

• natives were pushed off their lands once again

• there were large debates over deforestation caused by railroads

• homestead acts were put in place for settlers and natives