US FACSS 2 Study Guide

True/ False: After the Civil War, a factor in the rise of a new industrial America was a united country post-Civil War.

• True

• False

True/ False: an effect that an expanding urban population had on industrialization was that it provided a vast potential market for new inventions and industrial goods

• True

• False

What is an example of government support for business?

• government monopolized the oil industry

• the government gave land grants

• government encouraged unions

True/ False: Farmers overwhelmingly supported the railroads.

• True

• False

True/ False: Because of the railroad companies corruption, Grangers demanded the government to regulate the railroad industry.

• True

• False

True/ False: Carnegie almost controlled the entire steel industry because he made bad products very cheaply.

• True

• False

True/ False: Social Darwinism is the idea that the marketplace should not be regulated and the success or failure of a business are governed by natural laws that no one should have the right to intervene

• True

• False

An Industrialist would support the doctrine of ___________ (limited government intervention in businesses).

• Communism

• Socialism

• Laissez Fair

• Monarchy

True/ False: Robber Barons promoted strong unions to better protect workers rights

• True

• False

Which of the following would be considered a "robber baron?"

• Rockefeller

• Frederick Douglass

• Grangers

• Samuel Gompers