Study Exercise: New South, Industry, and Labor.

Question 1

The founder of Bull Durham Tobacco, he was among the first to profit from bright leaf

Answer 1

John Ruffin Green

Question 2

The best example of a New South city, it sprang from the shadows of Red Mountain, so named because of its rust color and that it was full of iron ore

Answer 2

Birmingham

Question 3

Name the signed agreement between landowner and tenant that was at the heart of Tenant Farming

Answer 3

Crop Lien Note

Question 4

After selling his steel interests to United States Steel, this son of Scottish immigrants became the richest in the world

Answer 4

Andrew Carnegie

Question 5

This Robber Baron used horizontal integration to monopolize the oil industry

Answer 5

John D. Rockefeller

Question 6

Founder of the American Federation of Labor, he wanted “More!” for his members

Answer 6

Sam Gompers

Question 7

“The most money-minded man in a money-minded age,” he ultimately controlled shipping on the west coast as head of the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad

Answer 7

Jay Gould

Question 8

In response to a contest, this young investor developed the cigarette rolling machine, one capable of producing 120 cigarettes in 10 hours

Answer 8

James Bonsack

Question 9

In 1903, this former President of Carnegie Steel left U. S. Steel to found Bethlehem Steel, which became the second largest steel producer in the country.

Answer 9

Charles Schwab

Question 10

The Prophet of the New South, this newspaperman also founded the Southern League of baseball, and the Atlanta Crackers baseball team

Answer 10

Henry W. Grady

Question 11

Bourbons who negotiated the end of Reconstruction were also known as?

Answer 11

Redeemers

Question 12

This capitalist financier consolidated the utilities and steel industries during the Gilded Age

Answer 12

J.P. Morgan

Question 13

A derogatory term aimed at textile workers

Answer 13

Lint Heads

Question 14

The author of God’s Little Acre

Answer 14

Erskine Caldwell

Question 15

While Carnegie preferred vertical integration to form partnerships, and Rockefeller horizontal integration to form Trusts, J. P. Morgan mastered the development of Holding Companies through a process known as what.

Answer 15

Interlocking Directorates

Question 16

Edwin Drake’s 1859 effort to find oil in Titusville, PA brought ridicule and was known derisively as something, as critics doubted it would work.

Answer 16

Drake’s Folly

Question 17

The Congressman who took Thomas Durant’s place as head of Crédit Mobilier following Durant’s resignation.

Answer 17

Oakes Ames

Question 18

Having purchased the patent on the cigarette rolling machine, he monopolized the cigarette industry with the American Tobacco Company.

Answer 18

James Buchanon “Buck” Duke

Question 19

A Railroad executive with Pittsburgh Rail Road, he served as a mentor to the young Andrew Carnegie.

Answer 19

Thomas Scott

Question 20

Inventor and developer of the alternating current (AC)

Answer 20

Nikola Tesla

Question 21

What company initially received the contract to power up Buffalo, NY, but was squeezed out by J.P. Morgan and General Electric?

Answer 21

Westinghouse

Question 22

Of the initial 13 Congressman and Senators implicated in the Crédit Moblier Scanda, he was the only one sanctioned.

Answer 22

Oaks Ames and James Brooks

Question 23

The derogatory term used to describe those whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation.

Answer 23

Nouveau Riche

Question 24

These Irish anthracite-coal miners used intimidation, arson and violence to protest denial of their rights to unions.

Answer 24

Molly Maguires

Question 25

In 1866, he became leader of the newly formed National Labor Union

Answer 25

William Sylvis

Question 26

Carnegie Steel’s business manager, he pushed back hard during the Homestead Strike, bringing in Pinkerton detectives, before asking the Governor to send in troops.

Answer 26

Henry Clay Frick

Question 27

Members of this Union were blamed for the Hay Market Square Bombing.

Answer 27

Knights of Labor

Question 28

Name the man credited with first applying Darwin’s theories on evolution to social and business relationships.

Answer 28

Herbert Spencer

Question 29

This future leader of the Socialist Party in the United States led workers from this union in the Pullman Strike, paralyzing railway traffic in Chicago.

Answer 29

Eugene V. Debs

Question 30

The Crédit Mobilier Scandal became news when this Congressman leaked compromising letters to the New York Sun, which then broke the story of how Crédit Mobilier received $72 million in contracts for constructing $53 million worth of railroad.

Answer 30

Henry Simpson McComb

Question 31

Which future President was implicated in a Congressional investiation as having received shares in Crédit Mobilier, but denied the charges?

Answer 31

James Garfield

Question 32

Name the inventor whose interchangeable parts enabled various industries to become more efficient and lost costly in there production methods?

Answer 32

Eli Whitney

Question 33

Name two American monopolies that were later broken up under the Sherman and Clayton Anti-Trust Acts.

Answer 33

Standard Oil and American Tobacco Co.

Question 34

In 1893, the Niagara Falls Power Co. initially awarded the contract to light up Buffalo, NY to this company, one that utilized the alternating current method.

Answer 34

Westinghouse

Question 35

This system of labor was designed as a temporary remedy to the plight of the black freedman, but last over sixty years.

Answer 35

Sharecropping

Question 36

The author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Answer 36

James Agee