History Lesson 9

Select ALL that are true:

• In 1870, the United States was primarily an agricultural nation.

• By 1920, the United States underwent a major transformation as many Americans left farming in search of industrial jobs in cities.

• As railroads served as the big business in the West, the steel and oil industries began to take off in the East.

• Efforts to combat unfair conditions were created in both rural and urban settings to make life better for ordinary Americans.

• The US' major transformation to a world power happened in the 1920s.

owned all factors of production to ensure a quality product

• Carnegie Steel

• Rockefeller Oil and horizontal integration

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-faire

merged with other oil companies or drive competition out of the market by underpricing product and paying employees low wages.

• Carnegie Steel

• Rockefeller Oil and horizontal integration

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-faire

The theory that businesses will survive, thrive, or die without government intervention.

• Carnegie Steel

• Rockefeller Oil and horizontal integration

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-faire

suggested that the US government keep a hands-off approach to how big business operated

• Carnegie Steel

• Rockefeller Oil and horizontal integration

• Social Darwinism

• Laissez-faire

targeted trusts that interfered with the free market by outlawing monopolistic business practices

• Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890

• Assembly Line

• Agricultural concerns

• Industrial concerns

popularized by Henry Ford for use in automobile manufacturing, a method allowing for mass production

• Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890

• Assembly Line

• Agricultural concerns

• Industrial concerns

The Grange, Munn vs. Illinois, Munn v. Illinois, 1877 (Supreme Court Case), Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, Panic of 1893, Populist Party

• Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890

• Assembly Line

• Agricultural concerns

• Industrial concerns

Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor (AFL), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), United Mine Workers of America

• Sherman Antitrust Act in 1890

• Assembly Line

• Agricultural concerns

• Industrial concerns

The _________ (circa 1867 to 1896) was an era of rapid industrial and economic growth, especially in the North and West.

• Golden Age

• Gilded Age

• Silver Age

• Rockefeller Era