AP US History Touart- American Pageant (Chapter 24) Industry Comes of Age
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281541773 | Land grants | What was the primary method in which Congress paid the railroad companies for the construction of the railroads? | |
281541774 | Union Pacific and Central Pacific | What two companies constructed the first transcontinental railroad? | |
281541775 | Leland Stanford | Who was the former governor of California and organizer of the Transcontinental Railroad? | |
281541776 | James Hill | Who constructed the Great Northern railroad and insured the prosperity of its surrounding area through the introduction of blooded bulls? | |
281541777 | Cornelius Vanderbilt | Who was the most successful builder of the New York Central a key eastern trunk line? | |
281541778 | The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) | What organization was the first to become active in trying to regulate the railroad monopolies by advocating state regulatory laws? | |
281541779 | Wabash v. Illinois | What was the Supreme Court decision that ruled that states could not regulate the railroads as it violated the Commerce Clause of the Constitution? | |
281541780 | Interstate Commerce Act (1887) | What was the US government's first legislation attempting to regulate railroad traffic and rates? | |
281541781 | Alexander Graham Bell | Who was responsible for the development of the telephone? | |
281541782 | Thomas Edison | Who was responsible for the incandescent light bulb? | |
281544138 | vertical integration | What is the practice of controlling every step of the industrial production process in order to increase efficiency and limit competition? | |
281541783 | Andrew Carnegie | Which industrialist is most associated with steel and vertical integration? | |
281544139 | trust | What is a mechanism by which one company grants control over its operations, through ownership of its stock, to another company? | |
281544140 | horizontal integration | What is the term for the practice of dominating a particular phase of the production process in order to monopolize a market often by forming trusts and alliances with competitors? | |
281541784 | John D. Rockefeller | Which monopolist exploited the oil industry through the technique of horizontal integration? | |
281544141 | interlocking directorate | What is the practice of having executives from one company serve on the Board of Directors of another company? | |
281541785 | U.S. Steel, J.P. Morgan | Two-part What was America's first billion dollar corporation and who was the gifted banker who organized it? | |
281541786 | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | What was the legislation passed in 1890 that forbade combinations in restraint of trade, but was ineffective at regulating monopolies? | |
281541787 | Gospel of Wealth | What was the philosophy that the wealthy were rich because God ordained it and thus they should live morally? | |
281541788 | Social Darwinism | What was the intellectual belief that the wealthy were the fittest of human nature and thus destined to have supremacy? | |
281541789 | Henry Grady | Who was the Southern newspaper editor who tirelessly promoted industrialization as the salvation of the economically backward South? | |
281544142 | Pittsburgh plus | What was the name of the pricing system that developed for American manufactured steel that secured advantageous rates to one particular location in the country? | |
281541790 | James Duke | Who was the founder of American Tobacco Company and the first monopolist of mass produced cigarettes? | |
281541791 | Gibson Girl | What became the new image of the athletic and independent woman of the 1890s? | |
281541792 | iron clad oath (or yellow dog contract) | What is the term for an employer requirement that workers promise to not join a union under threat of dismissal? | |
281541793 | injunction | What is a court order forcing workers to return to their jobs? | |
281541794 | National Labor Union | What was the first major labor union in America with membership of 600,000? | |
281544143 | Knights of Labor | What was the second national labor organization, organized in 1869 as a secret society and later opened to all workers both skilled and unskilled? | |
281541796 | Terence Powderly | Who was the eloquent leader of the Knights of Labor that made substantial gains in the 1880s before it suddenly collapsed? | |
281541797 | Haymarket Square | What was the site of a terrorist attack that struck an end to the Knights of Labor? | |
281541795 | John Altgeld | Who was the Illinois governor who pardoned the anarchists convicted of bombing a Chicago gathering? | |
281544144 | AFL (American Federation of Labor) | What was organized as a union of unions that included only skilled workers in 1886? | |
281541798 | Samuel Gompers | Who was the most famous pragmatic leader of the AFof L in the latter 19th and early 20th century? | |
281544145 | closed shop | What is a practice of allowing only unionized employees to work for a particular company? |