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WorksheetsUS HY 2 Ch. 6 Test
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
This Industrial Revolution discovery brought the carbon out of iron.
The Kelly Process
The Bessemer Process
The Carnegie Process
The Pittsburgh Process
This man founded the world’s first research laboratory in New Jersey:
Benjamin Franklin
George Westinghouse
Nikola Tesla
Thomas Alva Edison
Who developed the telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
Steve Jobs
Antonio Marconi
George Westinghouse
Professor Charles F. Dowd proposed what to help the railroad industry?
Steel rail lines
Electric engines
24 time zones across the world
More bridges over rail lines to avoid wrecks
After Munn v. Illinois was overturned, the Federal government began controlling shipping costs with the…
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Interstate Commerce Act
Price Control Committee
Federal Reserve
Steel was the business/industry Robber Baron ___________ was in.
Ray Evernham
Jay Gould
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vertical Integration involves buying out competitors. True or False?
True
False
John D. Rockefeller was in the __________ business.
Stock market
Oil
Steel
Rail
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act made it illegal for what to form?
Interstate passenger rail companies
Large banks
Monopolies
Conglomerate cooperations
This strike was at one of Andrew Carnegie’s steel mills.
The Homestead Strike
The Great Strike of 1877
The Haymarket Affair
The Pinkerton Strike
This person organized the United Mine Workers of America.
Eugene V. Debs
Caesar Chavez
Ricky B. Craven
Mary Harris Jones
This “Robber Baron” donated a large sum of money to a University in Tennessee.
Andrew Carnegie
J.P Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
In the late 19th century Industrial period, most emigrants to America came from-
Europe
Asia
Central America
Africa
Which of the following factors helped lead to a period of industrial growth during the late 1800s?
The increase in the cost of hiring labor
The decline in the population of urban areas
The decline in government spending for business and innovation
The increase in the development of new uses for natural resources like coal, iron and oil.
Why were the Grangers upset with the railroad companies? Choose the two correct answers.
The railroads charged all customers the same price.
The railroad companies set maximum passenger rates.
The railroads engaged in formal agreements to fix prices.
The railroad companies misused government land grants.
The railroads allowed the government to regulate their business.
When a company buys out the suppliers to make their products:
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Monopoly
Joint Stock Company
When a company buys out competing companies in their industry or economic sector:
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Monopoly
Joint Stock Company
Which of the following correctly describes the working conditions that most workers faced?
Safe environments with few accidents
Equal pay for men and women
A variety of tasks to perform
Long hours with low pay
When a company that has complete control over an industry’s production, wages, and prices it has a...
Holding
Monopoly
Pool
Trust
Competing companies that put control of their businesses under a single group form a:
Holding Group
Monopoly
Pool
Trust
Companies in the same industry that divide up the business among each other form a:
Holding Group
Monopoly
Pool
Trust
A corporation that buys out the stock of competing companies:
Holding Company
Monopoly
Pool
Trust
Why did public support for organized labor die down after the Haymarket Affair?
The labor march was weak
Unpopular President Grover Cleveland backed the protesters
A bomb was set off during the protests and blame was mostly directed at the demonstrators.
The mayor of Chicago was killed in the event
The period of advancement and big business from the 1870s to 1900 is also known in the U.S. as the...
New Union Period
Gilded Age
The Second Republic
The "Big Money" era
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) consisted of many _________ that banded together.
Masonic Lodges
Unions
Pro-industry politicians
Veterans Associations
