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The combining of a number of firms engaged in the same
business, such as the merging of man different petroleum
drilling companies into one company, is an example of - --
Answers---Horizontal intergration
By the end of the 1800s, the use of pools, trusts, and holding
companies by big business resulted in - --Answers---A
concentration of economic power in the hands of a few
The philosophy of Social Darwinism promoted the idea that - -
-Answers---Only the fittest individuals survived in a free
marketplace
The philosophy of Social Darwinism appealed to some
American businessmen because it justified their belief that - -
-Answers---Their business tactics were legitimate
"The Gospel of Wealth," as advanced by Andrew Carnegie,
promoted the concept that people with wealth shoud - --
Answers---Use their resources to help society
As an alternative to Social Darwinism, Henry George's 1879
book Progress and Poverty proposed - --Answers---A tax on
land that would distribute wealth more equally
,As a result of the industrialization of the late 1800s, American
workers experienced a - --Answers---Rise in their standard
of living
The increased employment of women and children in industry
was due to - --Answers---The decreasing need for skilled
labor in the factories
In the 1870s, efforts by the labor unions to gain bargaining
power were unsuccessful primarily because - --Answers---
Many Americans feared the tactics of the unions and
considered them too radical
The Knights of Labor was - --Answers---An extremely
powerful labor union whose membership reached over 1
million by 1920
The Haymarket Square Riot of 1886 was - --Answers---An
indication to many members of the public that labor was
riddled with radicals
The outcome of the Pullman strike of 1894 indicated that the
federal government would - --Answers---Intervene on the
side of management rather than labor
Andrew Carnegie became the major suppliers of - --Answers-
--Steel by using vertical integration to control all aspects of
its manufacture
,In late-nineteenth century America, unions had difficulty
prospering because - --Answers---Middle-class values
heralded individualism and private and private property, and
unions were seen as a threat to these
Which of the following is an example of the influence of
corporate power on politics in the decades following the Civil
War? - --Answers---Establishing an eight-hour day for
government employees
Despite the problems of rapid growth, the cities of the late
1800s continued to grow because - --Answers---They were
the sources of jobs
During the 1880s, when Southern blacks immigrated to the
cities, - --Answers---Black women found work more often
than did black men
In the late 1880s, most of the foreign immigrants to the cities -
--Answers---Established close-knit ethnic communities
In dealing with the huge numbers of immigrants, most cities
solved their housing problems by moving the new arrivals into
- --Answers---Tenement slums
, Jacob Riis's 1890 book How the Other Half Lives shocked
middle-class Americans with its sensational description of - -
-Answers---Lower-class slums
The city machine and "boss rule" were created and continued
to thrive because - --Answers---Immigrants needed services
and employment
During the late 1800s, the most significant effect of the change
in incomes upon society was that - --Answers---The middle
class grew larger and more prosperous
Montgomery Ward and Sears Roebuck stores were the first to
- --Answers---Provide mail-order catalogues in rural areas
In the late 1800s, the most popular of the new spectator sports
was - --Answers---Baseball
Organized football was first played by - --Answers---College
students
During the Teddy Roosevelt administration, the White House
conference on organized sports culminated in the formation of
what was to become the - --Answers---National College
Athletic Association