Industrial Revolution

Even before the invention of the automobile, petroleum was in high demand

• power locomotives

• Turn it into kerosene

• Turn it into plastics

• Lubricate moving parts

Economic system of Capitalism relies on _______ to regulate prices and wages

• business

• government

• GNP

• supply and demand

Which of the answers was a technique for breaking a union in which the company refused to allow the workers on the property and refused to pay them

• Shutout

• Lockout

• Blacklist

• Strkebreaker

The Bessemer process is a method of

• Refining petroleum

• Pasteurizing milk

• Mining coal

• Producing steel

All of the following were important factors in post-civil war industrial expansion EXCEPT

• Immigration restrictions

• An Abundance of natural resources

• New American inventions

• A large pool of unskilled labor

What is the most important characteristic of the Sherman Anti-trust Act

• Actually controlled the abuses of big business

• Revolutionized the business system

• Represented the first attempt by the federal government to regulate monopolies

• Prohibited the worst abuses of big business, such as pools and rebates

Which two immigrant groups were involved in the construction of the transcontinental railroad

• Russian/Irish

• Spanish/Dutch

• German/Italian

• Chinese/Irish

Haymarket Affair was significant because

• showed the power of the Unions over companies

• showed the corruption in the police force

• led the American public to believe unions were violent and un-American

• resulted in government control over worker's wages

Which of the following contributed to the rise of industrialization in America EXCEPT

• new technologies

• government control over monopolies

• available natural resources

• huge population of laborers

Social Darwinism was used to explain all the following in America except

• huge numbers of poor Americans

• the power of company owners

• huge success of big business

• charity programs for the poor