Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of John P. Altgeld.

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Question 2

In the case of Wabash, St. Louis, and Pacific Railroad Company v. Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court held that state legislatures could NOT regulate railroads because

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A)   the U.S. Constitution did not permit the government to regulate private industry.
B)   the state legislatures were acting on behalf of private interest, Illinois farmers.
C)   the state legislatures had provided the railroad company with state regulatory exemptions when land grant legislation was enacted to help create the railroad.
D)   railroad executives had committed no illegal acts in their business.
E)   railroads were interstate businesses and could not be regulated by any single state.

Question 3

All of the following were important factors in post-Civil War industrial expansion EXCEPT

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A)   a large pool of unskilled labor.
B)   an abundance of natural resources.
C)   American ingenuity and inventiveness.
D)   immigration restrictions.
E)   a political climate favoring business.

Question 4

The Knights of Labor believed that republican traditions and institutions could be preserved from corrupt monopolies

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A)   when American workers achieved a greater degree of class consciousness.
B)   by strengthening the economic and political independence of the workers.
C)   through the destruction of the American Federation of Labor.
D)   by the development of strong craft unions.
E)   by forming an independent political movement.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of J. Pierpont Morgan.

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Question 6

The text authors contend that "more than any other single factor, the railroad network spurred the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years." Do you agree? Why or why not?

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I agree with the statement that the rail...

Question 7

Which one of the following is least like the other four?

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A)   closed shop
B)   lockout
C)   yellow dog contract
D)   blacklist
E)   company town

Question 8

The first transcontinental railroad was completed by the construction efforts of which of the following railroads?

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A)   Union Pacific
B)   Northern Pacific
C)   Central Pacific
D)   Southern Pacific
E)   Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

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Question 10

Present an argument that "the Constitution, the executive branch, and the courts were on the side of the corporations" in the late 19th century. Cite passages from the Constitution, executive branch actions, and court decisions to illustrate your argument.

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In the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

Question 11

The Knights of Labor was weakened by

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A)   its refusal to endorse social reform and the eight-hour day.
B)   stiff competition from the National Labor Union.
C)   its association in the public mind with the Haymarket riot.
D)   its inclusion of both skilled and unskilled workers.
E)   an unrealistic dream that all nineteenth-century American workers would eventually become producers.

Question 12

Despite generally rising wages in the late nineteenth century, industrial workers were extremely vulnerable to all of the following EXCEPT

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A)   economic swings and depressions.
B)   employers' whims.
C)   new educational requirements for jobs.
D)   sudden unemployment.
E)   illness and accident.

Question 13

The major incentive that drove captains of industry to invent machines was

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A)   lucrative government grants that were offered to would-be inventors.
B)   a chance to strike it rich via technological innovation.
C)   that machines would enable them to replace expensive skilled workers with cheap unskilled workers.
D)   that machines could do the work five times faster than humans did.
E)   None of these choices are correct.

Question 14

Over the last century, historians' criticisms of the industrial capitalism of the Gilded Age have included the

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A)   romantic idea that industrialization diminished workers' spiritual quality of life.
B)   assertion that workers were brutalized by the industrial system.
C)   argument that American living standards were not raised by industrialization.
D)   claim that American industrialization sharpened class divisions.
E)   assertion that most great American fortunes came from inherited wealth.

Question 15

Compare and contrast the National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, and American Federation of Labor in regard to their origins, goals, organizing strategies, and leadership. Account for the failure of the first two and for the success of the AFL. What might have made a difference in making the Knights of Labor a successful labor union in the long-term?

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Question 16

Railroading in the late 19th century provided a significant stimulus to

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A)   agriculture.
B)   urbanization.
C)   feminism.
D)   immigration.
E)   industrialization.

Question 17

What do you think were the three most significant consequences of the industrialization of the American economy after the Civil War? Explain your choices.

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Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of Thomas Edison.

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Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of James J. Hill.

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Question 20

The greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it

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A)   enabled farmers to make a highly profitable living by shipping their goods across the country.
B)   enabled people from farms and small towns to visit the big cities.
C)   united the nation into a single, integrated national market.
D)   made it possible for some immigrants to settle in the West.
E)   developed a skilled industrial workforce.

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