Check Your Understanding- Chapter 24 Flashcards
The federal government contributed to the building of the national rail network by
providing free grants of federal land to the railroad companies.
The two railroads that joined to create the first transcontinental line in 1869 were the
Union Pacific and the Central Pacific.
Two crucial innovations making the railroad system possible were
steel tracks and a standard gauge for the width between the tracks.
Who of the following was not among the organizers of one of the large monopolistic trust corporations of the Gilded Age?
Thomas Edison
A vertical integration like the Carnegie Steel Corporation essentially worked to
establish monopolistic control over every phase of business from raw material to final consumer.
The large trusts like Standard Oil and Swift and Armour justified their economic domination of their industries by claiming that
only large-scale methods of production and distribution could provide superior products at low prices
The southern textile mills generally employed
poor whites recently off the farms.
One of the most difficult adjustments many formerly rural workers had to make to the industrial system was the
strict discipline and regimentation of time.
The group whose lives were most dramatically altered by the new industrial age was
women
In its efforts on behalf of workers, the National Labor Union won
an eight-hour day for government workers.
The Knights of Labor believed that conflict between capital and labor would disappear when
labor would own and operate businesses and industries.
In contrast to the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor advocated
concentrating on improving wages and hours and avoiding general social reform.
