Quiz #2 Flashcards
The new steel cooking technology that converted large quantities of iron into steel was called
A. dialysis
B. monopsony
C. the Bessemer process
D. vertical integration
C. the Bessemer process
Exp. The new steel cooking technology that converted large quantities of iron into steel was called the Bessemer process.
In the late 1800s, violent strikes like the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Haymarkey Square Riots in Chicago in 1886
A. were usually planned and directed by communists
B. won the sympathies of average Americans for the workers’ cause
C. challenged the authority of employers and evidenced working-class discontent
D. occurred in the dangerous mining and timber industries, but not in more specialized activities like railroads or steel
C. challenged the authority of employers and evidenced working-class discontent
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“Genius is 1% invention, 99% perspiration.”
A. William Graham Sumner
B. Emma Lazarus
C. Jane Addams
D. Thomas Edison
E. Andrew Carnegie
D. Thomas Edison
The first “big business” in America, at least in terms of finance, labor relations, and management, was the
A. oil refining industry
B. railroad industry
C. steel industry
D. telephone industry
B. railroad industry
Leader of the American Federation of Labor from its founding in 1886 to 1924 was
A. Samuel Gompers
B. Eugene V. Debs
C. William Graham Sumner
D. John D. Rockefeller
A. Samuel Gompers
Which of the following was NOT among the advantages of the corporate form of business organization?
A. It designated a single person, the largest shareholder, as personally liable by law for corporation debts
B. It could raise needed capital quickly and efficiently
C. It separated the owners from those who actually managed the firm
D. It continued to exist even if a shareholder died
A. It designated a person personally responsible by law for corporation debts
From where did the bulk of the manpower come, to work in the many new factories?
A. from Latin America
B. from both the rural areas of America and Europe, especially Southern and Eastern Europe
C. from Asia
D. from both the African American and Mexican communities
B. from both the rural areas of America and Europe, especially Southern and Eastern Europe
What did the utopian future in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888) look like?
A. White settlers had been eliminated from North America and native tribes lived in peaceful bliss
B. A natural disaster had rendered the technologies of modern life useless, forcing Americans to rediscover a life in harmony with nature
C. The competitive society of the Gilded Age had been replaced by an orderly utopia managed by a benevolent government
D. Free-market capitalism had come to full fruition, and competition was the order of the day
C. The competitive society of the Gilded Age had been replaced by an orderly utopia managed by a benevolent government
Exp. In Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward (1888), fictional Bostonian Rip Van Winkle wakes up in an orderly utopia managed by a benevolent government
Identify the author or document of the following primary source quote:
“Watch the costs, and the profits will take care of themselves.”
A. Jane Addams
B. Andrew Carnegie
C. William Graham Sumner
D. Thomas Edison
E. Emma Lazarus
B. Andrew Carnegie
Eastern European Jewish immigrant entrepreneurs played a key role in establishing what new industry in the early 20th century?
A. movie industry
B. department stores
C. automobile industry
D. professional baseball
A. movie industry
Which of the following statements best describes the typical pattern of immigrant life?
A. Clustered into ever-changing ethnic “ghetto” neighborhoods, with a church or synagogue at the center, ethnic communities both preserved Old World flavor and eased the transition to an Americanized culture
B. Stripped of their religious and linguistic identity, immigrants dispersed into the general population mix of the city, rapidly assimilating into their adopted homeland
C. Shaped by their rural peasant backgrounds, European immigrant men married quickly and bought a farm as soon as they could
D. Hostile to Anglo-Saxon ways, immigrants crowded together in “foreign quarters,” embracing each other’s cultural contributions while resisting assimilation
A. Clustered into ever-changing ethnic “ghetto” neighborhoods, with a church or synagogue at the center, ethnic communities both preserved Old World flavor and eased the transition to an Americanized culture
Before the 1880s, most immigrants came from ________; after the 1880s, most immigrants came from ________.
A. Ireland; Scandinavia
B. the European continent; the British Isles
C. northern and western Europe; southern and eastern Europe
D. Europe; Latin America
C. northern and western Europe; southern and eastern Europe
A new experiment in providing social services to female slum dwellers featured centers where middle-class women lived among the poor, provided amenities and job skills classes, and taught American ways to immigrants. These were called
A. rescue missions
B. Social Gospel centers
C. vaudeville houses
D. Settlement houses
D. Settlement houses
First black heavyweight champion of the world, who was too much for white America to accept in 1908:
A. John L. Sullivan
B. Muhammad Ali
C. Jim Corbett
D. Sugar Ray Lenoard
E. Jack Johnson
E. Jack Johnson
Author of How the Other Half Lives(1890):
A. Jacob Riis
B. Edward Bellamy
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Mark Twain
E. William Tweed
A. Jacob Riis
Which statement about the American Federation of Labor is true?
A. The AFL, a combination of craft unions, stressed concrete, practical economic gains
B. The AFL attracted a majority of U.S. skilled workers into its ranks
C. The AFL’s approach to labor consolidation was the horizontal business model
D. The AFL’s longtime leader was Eugene V. Debs
A. The AFL, a combination of craft unions, stressed concrete, practical economic gains
Well-made, inexpensive merchandise in standardized sizes and shapes found outlets in new palaces of consumption known as
A. galleries
B. department stores
C. Chain stores
D. factories
B. department stores
Exp. Well-made, inexpensive merchandise in standardized sizes and shapes found outlets in new palaces of consumption known as department stores.
An urban middle-class woman was primarily judged by
A. how many children she had
B. how much money she contributed to the family
C. the state of her home
D. how well read she was
C. the state of her home
Victorian beliefs held that women should be seen as “ _____________” with chaste sexual mores, in opposition to Victorian men, who possessed uncontrollable lust.
A. Greek Goddesses
B. Little Queenies
C. Taste Makers
D. pure vessels
E. It Girls
D. pure vessels
The rapid industrial development of the United States between 1860 and 1900:
A. produced an economy dominated by enormous corporations
B. reduced the use of women and child laborers in mines and mills
C. increased the opportunities for small- and medium-sized companies to succeed
D. increased the demand for and the importance of skilled artisans
A. produced an economy dominated by enormous corporations
First “talking” motion picture, released by Warner Bros. in 1927, which deals with the dilemmas of assimilation:
A. Birth of a Nation
B. Modern Times
C. The Immigrant
D. The Jazz Singer
D. The Jazz Singer
The modern city was the product of
A. government spending
B. European wars
C. industrialization
D. agricultural productivity
C. industrialization
Exp. The modern city was the product of industrialization. Cities contained the great investment banks, sweatshops, railroad yards, and department stores.
First major film studio to appeal to middle and upper-class audiences, making movies “respectable”:
A. MGM
B. Universal
C. Columbia
D. Warner Bros
E. 20th-Century Fox
A. MGM
What urban housing design, once hailed as a helpful innovation, turned out to be a public health disaster for residents and a dangerous blight on the cityscape?
A. the settlement house
B. the el
C. the tenement hall
D. the skyscraper
C. the tenement hall
By 1900, most wage workers in the industry worked
A. ten hours, six days a week.
B. thirty-five hours a week
C. eight hours, five days a week
D. four hours, every day
A. ten hours, six days a week.
Exp. By 1900, most of those earning wages in industry worked six days a week, ten hours a day
