US History TEST REV (with answers) Flashcards
During the Industrialization Era, all of the following increased as a result of the expansion of the railroads EXCEPT:
A) consumption of coal, steel, and iron
B) Use of rebates, mergers, and other business practices
C) Workers rights and labor safety
D) The Power of Industry
C) Workers’ rights and labor safety.
When a railroad utilized rebates and price gouging or charged different fees for long and short hauls, it was attempting to:
A) encourage more competition within the industry
B) Discourage competition and create monopolistic control over the industry
C) Provide more options for those needing to ship goods on the rails
D) Encourage the government to step in and regulate the railroad industry
B) Discourage competition and create monopolistic control over the industry.
The process of vertical integration occurs when:
A) All components required for the development of a product are controlled by one company
B) All competitors in a particular industry are controlled by one company
C) all employees of an industry are controlled by one company
D) all owners of an industry are controlled by one company
A) All components required for the development of a product are controlled by one company
Which of the following arguments would be used by Ida Tarbell to prove that the great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were “robber barons?”
A) Because they followed the gospel of Wealth
B) Because the values of the time period encouraged and rewarded the business practices utilized by the industrialists.
C) Because their business empires created jobs and raised the overall standard of living in the United States.
D) Because their methods mergers, rebates, and trust-building-
-were unethical and unfair
D) Because their methods mergers, rebates, and trust-building-
-were unethical and unfair
The following cartoon of Andrew Carnegie exemplifies which of the following ideologies of the industrial period?
A) Social Darwinism
B) Gospel of wealth
C) Eugenics
D) Laissez-Faire
B) Gospel of wealth
All of the following changes are associated with the industrial period (1870s-
1910s) EXCEPT for:
A) rapid urbanization
B) decline in rates of immigration
C) political corruption
D) company towns and trusts
B) decline in rates of immigration
Which of the following groups does not represent “new” immigrants?
A) Italians
B) Russian Jews
C) British
D) Chinese
C) British
Which group within the “new immigrants” suffered eventual legislative exclusion from the United States?
A) Russian Jews
B) The Chinese
C) The Japanese
D) Slovaks
B) The Chinese
Which group of people would support a political machine like Tammany Hall:
A) Nativists and Xenophobes
B) Muckrakers
C) The wealthy
D) New Immigrants
D) New Immigrants
Political machines and political bosses controlled city politics by doing all of the following EXCEPT:
A) Voter Fraud
B) using kickbacks to skim money from the city treasury
C) monitor legal voting legislation and repairing voting machines
D) using police forces to punishing those that do not vote for their candidates
C) monitor legal voting legislation and repairing voting machines
Shallow men believe in luck, charity, or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Ralph Waldo
The quote above most likely reflects which industrial ideology?
A) Social Darwinism
B) Social Gospel
C) Eugenics
D) Scientific Racism
A) Social Darwinism
Although his methods could be very rough, and he paid enormous bribes, he was the first, and possibly the greatest of large scale enterprise. An exraordinary combination of piratical entrepreneur and steady-handed corporate adeministrator, he achieved dominance primarly by being more farsighted, more technologically advanced, more ruthlessly focused on costs and efficiency than anyone else, When Rockefeller was consolidating the refining industry quick 1870s, for example, he simply invited competiors to his office and showed them his books. One refiner - who quickly sold out on favorable terms - was ‘astounded’ that Rockefeller could profitably sell kerosene at a price far below his own cost of production. Rockefeller just razed the new properties and incorporated their production into his own plants, which were typically 10 to 50 times larger.” Money, Greed, and Risk, by Charles Morris
The preceeding quote argues that John D. Rockefeller was:
A) A robber baron
B) A captain of industry
C) An opponent of social Darwinism
D) A believer in the Social Gospel
B) A captain of industry
