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

Chapter 17: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

True or False Quiz

1
The principal use of petroleum in the late nineteenth century was oil for lubrication of machines rather than fuel.
A)True
B)False
2
Due to overbuilding in the pre-Civil War era, the number of miles of railroad track in the United States actually declined from 1860-1900.
A)True
B)False
3
John D. Rockefeller began building Standard Oil by concentrating on the refining stage of the petroleum industry.
A)True
B)False
4
The holding company came to be more popular for big business than the formal trust because it allowed actual corporate mergers.
A)True
B)False
5
In the developing economy of the late nineteenth century the majority of business tycoons personified the "rags to riches" rise to wealth and power.
A)True
B)False
6
The "Gospel of Wealth" referred to the idea that the rich had a responsibility to use their money to promote social progress.
A)True
B)False
7
The theory of Social Darwinism argued that great concentrations of wealth in the late nineteenth century violated the principles of evolution and that a great economic collapse was inevitable.
A)True
B)False
8
Worker frustration with the problems of monopoly led to the formation of the Socialist Labor Party, which became a major force in nineteenth-century politics even though it never elected a president.
A)True
B)False
9
By the 1890s more women were employed in factories than as domestic workers.
A)True
B)False
10
Most European immigrants who came to the United Sates up to the 1880s arrived from northern Europe and the British Isles (Germany, England, Ireland, etc.), but by 1900 southern and eastern Europeans (Italians, Poles, Russians, Greeks, Slavs, etc.) dominated.
A)True
B)False
11
In general, railroads, mining companies, and industrial employers tried to discourage the immigration of workers from Europe.
A)True
B)False
12
With very few exceptions, in the period from 1870 to 1910 women were prohibited from working in factories.
A)True
B)False
13
The American Federation of Labor stressed the idea of "one big union" for all workers while the Knights of Labor was a coalition of individual craft unions.
A)True
B)False
14
Grover Cleveland refused to use federal troops in labor conflicts because he regarded such incidents as state matters.
A)True
B)False
15
Many immigrants came to the United States intending to work for a few years to earn some money and then return to their home country.
A)True
B)False
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