THE AMERICAN YAWP CHAPTER 16 EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - Answers Railroad financial bubble burst, strikes from Baltimore to St.
Louis, Union roots
Scientific Management - Answers the intro of industrialism, assembly lines, mass production
Cyrus McCormick - Answers utilized mass production and production managers with his reapers and
saw increases in profit
"Visible Hand" - Answers a new class of managers between worlds of workers and owners
J.P. Morgan - Answers Steele tycoon, oversaw the formation of the USS from 8 different companies
(first monopoly)
Henry George - Answers economist and author of 1879's "Progress and Poverty"
"robber baron" - Answers nickname for financial titans like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Answers an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his
wealth in railroads and shipping
John D. Rockefeller - Answers an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and
philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie - Answers led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century
Social Darwinism - Answers The Idea that the fittest would see superiority through economic success
while welfare and charity would lead to social degeneration, or the survival of the weak
William Graham Sumner - Answers believed the weak should not be helped to improve
Knights of Labor - Answers Union that welcomed skilled and unskilled men and women workers in to
its ranks
Haymarket Riot - Answers a union protest in which a bomb exploded and killed seven policemen
American Federation of Labor - Answers emerged after the Haymarket Riot as a more conservative
option to the Knight of Labor
Homestead Strike (1892) - Answers workers shut down and occupied on of Carnagie's steel mills
Pullman Strike (1894) - Answers workers went on strike when wages were cut but the cost of living
remained the same
Eugene Victor Debs - Answers an American union leader, one of the founding members of the
Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for
President of the United States
Farmer's Alliance - Answers a group of agricultural Farmer's Alliance dissatisfied with the impersonal
capitalist system
Populist Party - Answers sprang from the Farmer's Alliance as a third party option
Omaha Platform (1892) - Answers expansion of federal power, nationalized railroad and telegraph
systems, and government loans
Panic of 1893 - Answers sparked the worst economic depression the nation had seen to that point
Free Silver - Answers a promotion of the free coinage of silver, a deviation of the gold standard
William Jennings Bryan - Answers received the 1896 democratic presidential bid and the populist bid
William McKinley - Answers won the presidential election of 1896 and installed the gold standard in
law
Socialist Party of America - Answers gained 150,000 members by 1913 making itself fairly influential
in American society
Great Railroad Strike of 1877 - Answers Railroad financial bubble burst, strikes from Baltimore to St.
Louis, Union roots
Scientific Management - Answers the intro of industrialism, assembly lines, mass production
Cyrus McCormick - Answers utilized mass production and production managers with his reapers and
saw increases in profit
"Visible Hand" - Answers a new class of managers between worlds of workers and owners
J.P. Morgan - Answers Steele tycoon, oversaw the formation of the USS from 8 different companies
(first monopoly)
Henry George - Answers economist and author of 1879's "Progress and Poverty"
"robber baron" - Answers nickname for financial titans like Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan, and
Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt - Answers an American business magnate and philanthropist who built his
wealth in railroads and shipping
John D. Rockefeller - Answers an American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and
philanthropist
Andrew Carnegie - Answers led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century
Social Darwinism - Answers The Idea that the fittest would see superiority through economic success
while welfare and charity would lead to social degeneration, or the survival of the weak
William Graham Sumner - Answers believed the weak should not be helped to improve
Knights of Labor - Answers Union that welcomed skilled and unskilled men and women workers in to
its ranks
Haymarket Riot - Answers a union protest in which a bomb exploded and killed seven policemen
American Federation of Labor - Answers emerged after the Haymarket Riot as a more conservative
option to the Knight of Labor
Homestead Strike (1892) - Answers workers shut down and occupied on of Carnagie's steel mills
Pullman Strike (1894) - Answers workers went on strike when wages were cut but the cost of living
remained the same
Eugene Victor Debs - Answers an American union leader, one of the founding members of the
Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for
President of the United States
Farmer's Alliance - Answers a group of agricultural Farmer's Alliance dissatisfied with the impersonal
capitalist system
Populist Party - Answers sprang from the Farmer's Alliance as a third party option
Omaha Platform (1892) - Answers expansion of federal power, nationalized railroad and telegraph
systems, and government loans
Panic of 1893 - Answers sparked the worst economic depression the nation had seen to that point
Free Silver - Answers a promotion of the free coinage of silver, a deviation of the gold standard
William Jennings Bryan - Answers received the 1896 democratic presidential bid and the populist bid
William McKinley - Answers won the presidential election of 1896 and installed the gold standard in
law
Socialist Party of America - Answers gained 150,000 members by 1913 making itself fairly influential
in American society
