USHC 4 New and Review Pacific Act to Unions

Which of the following BEST describes horizontal integration?

• The economic development of flatlands in the American west.

• A company owns all the businesses that supply it with raw goods and necessary services.

• When the government lets businesses operate without restrictions.

• A company acquires similar competing businesses and merges them into a single entity.

Which of the following methods would be embraced by a union leader?

• Child labor

• Collective bargaining

• Lockouts

• Laissez-faire economics

Tactics used by employers to break up unions.

• Lockouts

• SCABS

• Strikes

• Collective Bargaining

Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the government's influence on railroads in the West?

• The Western landscape should be preserved for free use by all the people.

• Legislation and government subsidies were created to develop a national market.

• The West mirrored European values and social patterns, creating small isolated towns.

• The development of an expansive railroad system hindered the growth of the United States.

3 things most commonly fought for by Unions.

• BETTER PAY

• BETTER WORKING CONDITIONS

• BETTER HOURS (8HR)

• YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS

All of the following are associated with John D Rockefeller EXCEPT

• Standard Oil

• Horizontal Integration

• Kerosene

• U.S. Steel

JP Morgan is associated with which of the following?

• Banking and Finance

• Standard Oil

• U.S. Steel

• Vertical Integration

Union representatives negotiating on behalf of the union members is an example of?

• Collective Barganing

• Arbitration

• Standard Bargaining

• Union Shop

Standard Oil and U.S. Steel were both examples of?

• Monopoly

• Merger

• Social Darwinism

• Robber Barons

Which of the following fostered the development of a national market by linking all parts of the country between 1840-1900?

• Highways

• Railroads

• Radio

• Electricity