HIS142 chapter 17 quiz

Question 1(1 point)

Mechanization transformed labor in all of the following waysexcept

Question 1 options:

	1) It pulled more women and children into factories.
	2) It led employers to seek out cheaper and cheaper workers.
	3) It led to safer working conditions.
	4) It made work more routine, as workers did the same task over and over again.
	5) It put workers at the mercy of increasingly large machines.

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Question 2(1 point)

The first mail-order business was

Question 2 options:

	1) Sears.
	2) Roebuck.
	3) Sears and Roebuck.
	4) Montgomery Ward.
	5) J.C. Penney.

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Question 3(1 point)

The Haymarket strike led to

Question 3 options:

	1) the founding of the Knights of Labor.
	2) growing anti-union sentiment nationwide.
	3) increased union membership across the country.
	4) new government policies about arresting strikers.
	5) a huge victory for the American Federation of Labor.

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Question 4(1 point)

Within twenty years of the first oil discovery, ____ Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the country's petroleum.

Question 4 options:

	1) National
	2) American Standard
	3) Standard
	4) U.S. Oil
	5) American Petroleum

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Question 5(1 point)

Industrialists justified their growing financial and political strength in all of the following waysexcept

Question 5 options:

	1) They claimed their actions benefited all mankind, not just themselves.
	2) They pointed to the "survival of the fittest" rationale of Social Darwinism.
	3) They said they were exemplars of the Horatio Alger myth.
	4) They insisted that they earned what they had from hard work and declined unfair advantages.
	5) They stressed their belief in Protestant individualism.

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Question 6(1 point)

The railroad strike of 1877 is evidence of

Question 6 options:

	1) the fact that government often intervened on behalf of big business in the decades after the Civil War.
	2) increasing worker discontent with low pay and hazardous conditions.
	3) the growth of an organized labor movement in America.
	4) All of these choices.
	5) None of these choices.

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Question 7(1 point)

One of the earliest American preservationists was

Question 7 options:

	1) Andrew Carnegie.
	2) Jay Gould.
	3) John Muir.
	4) John D. Rockefeller.
	5) Thomas Edison.

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Question 8(1 point)

Vertical integration meant

Question 8 options:

	1) buying up all competitors.
	2) breaking up older but less competitive monopolies.
	3) owning all aspects of production and distribution under one corporate organization, from accessing and owning the raw materials, to the production of the good(s), to the delivery of the finished product(s) to the consumer.
	4) creating a business model that would allow for mass production.
	5) buying just enough shares in a publicly traded company so as to control it.

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Question 9(1 point)

One of the more militant labor unions of the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World hoped to overthrow capitalism.

Question 9 options:

	1) True
	2) False

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Question 10(1 point)

Social Darwinism was the notion that the theory of "survival of the fittest" extended to the world of business.

Question 10 options:

	1) True
	2) False

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