Gilded Age Release Questions

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"Other industrialists, including John D. Rockefeller, merged the operations of many large companies to form a trust. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Trust came to monopolize 90% of the industry.....(The Industrial Revolution in United States, "Library of congress, August 25, 2017)

What was one DIRECT effect of the business practice discussed in this excerpt?

• Employees were prevented from buying stock.

• There was decreased competition among producers.

• Consumers were denied access to goods.

• There was a lack of employment opportunities for immigrants.

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• Ratification of a suffrage amendment

• Building on the transcontinental railroad.

• Passage of prohibition legislation

• Expansion of labor unions

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the...

• increased need to protect worker interests

• decreased power of political machines

• increased demand for skilled workers

• decreased profitability of the agricultural sector.

"All who recall the condition of the country in 1890 will remember that...the country was in real danger from another kind of slavery...that would result from the aggregations of capital in the hands of a few individuals and (businesses) controlling, for their own profit and advantage exclusively, the entire business of the country, including the production and sale of the necessaries of life." -Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan, 1911

In this excerpt, Justice Harlan is warning against...

• a civil service based on patronage rather than merit

• allowing powerful monopolies to dominate interstate commerce

• a lack of federal funding for essential transportation systems

• allowing labor unions to interfere with production goals.

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• Congress passed legislation imposing tariffs on imported beef.

• Most of the cowboys on cattle drives were European immigrants.

• The cattle industry was nationalized under the Department of Agriculture.

• The need to process large amounts of cattle made meatpacking a major industry.

Which of the following occurred between 1865 and 1900 as a result of the rapid industrialization of the United States?

• Social and economic class divisions began to disappear.

• Concerns about air pollution led to stricter environmental regulations.

• Union membership increased as workers sought better pay and conditions.

• Factory owners introduced wage-equity policies for women in the workplace.

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This cover from a 19th century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from...

• a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

• a slave-owning society to one without slavery

• a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism.

• a direct democracy to a reprersenti