American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 17: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

Multiple Choice Quiz

1
Four of the following are advantages that the United States enjoyed in its rise to industrial supremacy in the late nineteenth century. Which is the exception?
A)favorable government policies
B)an abundance of basic raw materials
C)a growing labor supply and expanding market
D)a high level of basic research in pure science
E)the emergence of new technology
2
During the 1870s and 1880s, the railroad industry
A)reduced the amount of track miles in the United States.
B)increased the amount of track in the United States by 10,000 miles.
C)increased the amount of track in the United States by 40,000 miles.
D)increased the amount of track in the United States by 100,000 miles.
E)doubled the amount of track miles in the United States.
3
Both the Bessemer-Kelly process and the open-hearth process are methods of
A)mining coal.
B)producing steel.
C)pasteurizing milk.
D)refining petroleum.
E)producing cast iron.
4
The oil industry was important in the late nineteenth century as
A)a source of fuel to satisfy the growing American demand.
B)the producer of a lubricant for the machines of the steel industry.
C)a replacement for coal as an energy source.
D)a source of petrochemicals.
E)All these answers are correct.
5
The term "Taylorism" refers to
A)scientific management in industry.
B)a revival of pride in craftsmanship.
C)a movement to organize unskilled labor.
D)a movement away from mass-produced clothing.
E)a method of industrial automation.
6
Henry Ford's main contribution to American industrialism was his
A)invention of the internal combustion engine.
B)introduction of structured management organization.
C)investment in research and development.
D)use of the moving assembly line to achieve mass production.
E)introduction of the Model T Ford automobile.
7
Each of the following was true about the railroads between 1860 and 1900 EXCEPT
A)they were the nation's biggest investors.
B)they increased the miles of track in the United States by over six times during these four decades.
C)they democratized control over the nation's transportation system.
D)they were built largely through government subsidies.
E)they promoted economic development along their rail lines.
8
Andrew Carnegie made his principle fortune in the field of
A)steel.
B)banking.
C)shipping.
D)petroleum.
E)telephones.
9
The legal principle that made investment in corporations attractive and made the growth of huge corporations possible was
A)caveat emptor.
B)accelerated depreciation.
C)tax-free capital accumulation.
D)exemption allowances.
E)limited liability.
10
A "vertically integrated" system of production is one in which
A)all the employees belong to one big union organized by industry rather than by craft.
B)management and labor share equally in the profits through an elaborate sharing arrangement.
C)employees of different ethnic origins work together on the assembly line.
D)a single company controls the entire industrial process from source of raw materials to the final market.
E)a combination of firms in a given industry are merged into one organization.
11
John D. Rockefeller made his principal fortune in the field of
A)steel.
B)banking.
C)shipping.
D)petroleum.
E)mining.
12
What new type of business organization permitted a small group of capitalists to control the stock of a large number of individual corporations without actually becoming one company? The term later came to refer generally to any huge economic concentration.
A)trust
B)cartel
C)holding company
D)joint-stock company
E)conglomerate
13
The idea of the "self-made man"
A)was proved by the frequent rise of working-class Americans to the upper economic classes.
B)reduced the amount of corruption in American industry.
C)was reaffirmed by the favorable odds of becoming a millionaire.
D)ignored the fact that most millionaires came from families of wealth and privilege.
E)fostered industrial corruption.
14
"Social Darwinism" was based on what aspect of Charles Darwin's theory of biological evolution?
A)social gospel
B)instant creation
C)biblical inerrancy
D)survival of the fittest
E)social gospel and instant creation
15
Social Darwinism and classical economics agree that
A)humans are descended from lower animals.
B)free competition promotes human progress.
C)the government should ease the lot of the poor.
D)government ownership of the majority of the means of production is desirable.
E)accumulation of great wealth improves the lot of society in general.
16
Which of the following emphasizes most strongly the duty of the rich to do good works for the public?
A)socialism
B)Social Darwinism
C)classical economics
D)the Gospel of Wealth
E)a guilty conscience
17
The "single tax" was
A)an income tax.
B)a sales tax.
C)a tax on "unearned increments."
D)a tax on "earned increments."
E)a value-added tax.
18
The theme of virtually all of Horatio Alger's novels was
A)the rich get richer; the poor get poorer.
B)poor boy makes good by hard work, perseverance, and luck.
C)average guy gets wealthy through cunning, guile, and questionable business practices.
D)rich man has conversion and realizes that philanthropy and government regulation are the only ways to promote an equitable society.
E)All these answers are correct except that a poor boy makes good by hard work, perseverance, and luck.
19
In the late nineteenth century, the American working classes suffered from four of the following conditions. Which is the exception?
A)little or no worker's compensation for injury
B)no government health and safety regulations
C)declining standard of living, in both absolute and relative terms
D)no job security and layoffs due to seasonal, cyclical, or technological factors
E)lack of job training programs
20
The Molly Maguires
A)used terrorist tactics to intimidate the coal operators in Pennsylvania.
B)received broad support from middle-class Americans.
C)were among the more conservative unionists.
D)gained their broadest support in the cities of Chicago and New York.
E)fomented the Haymarket bombing.
21
The immediate cause of the railroad strikes of 1877 was
A)a 10 percent cut in wages.
B)the infiltration of unions by anarchists.
C)the refusal of the owners to adopt safety measures.
D)the refusal of the owners to agree to cost-of-living increases.
E)All these answers are correct.
22
A major feature of the program of the American Federation of Labor was its emphasis on
A)gender equity between male and female industrial workers.
B)reforming and altering the capitalist system so that workers would own part of the corporations they worked for.
C)immediate gains for its members, such as higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions.
D)mass organization of all laborers skilled, unskilled, and agricultural.
E)creating a pathway for women into the work force.
23
The significance of the Haymarket Square incident in 1886 was that
A)unions won their demand for an eight-hour day.
B)the American socialist movement received a great boost.
C)the use of Pinkerton guards as strikebreakers was outlawed.
D)it led to federal intervention in labor union matters.
E)it stimulated a hysterical wave of fear of anarchism and its alleged connection with unionism.
24
The Homestead strike of 1892 and the Pullman strike of 1894 were similar in that
A)both involved the American Railway Union.
B)federal troops were used to restore order in both.
C)both started when management ordered pay cuts for some workers.
D)strikers fought Pinkerton guards in violent pitched battles at both locations.
E)both took place in Chicago.
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