Chapter 24 & 25 Quiz Trusts/pools/combination 1.

A company that buys up other businesses in the same industry is an example of (A) horizontal integration (B) vertical integration (C) a corporation (D) a jointstock company (E) a conglomerate. Regulation of trusts 2. The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the (A) Federal Trade Commission (B) Consumer Affairs Commission (C) Interstate Commerce Commission (D) Federal Anti-Trust Commission. 3. With the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 federal policy toward the railroads shifted from the (A) fixing of rates to the regulation of reasonable rates (B) granting of land subsidies to the fixing of rates (C) prohibition of rebates to the granting of land subsidies (D) granting of land subsidies to the prohibition of rebates to favored customers (E) fixing of rates to the prohibition of rebates to favored customers. Industrial Revolution 4. The Bessemer process was a method of producing (A) oil (B) steel (C) cotton cloth (D) electricity (E) corn. 5. The Industrial Revolution had all of the following consequences during the period from the Civil War to 1890 except: (A) real wages for workers declined (B) the production of goods increased dramatically (C) a new type of business corporation emerged (D) immigration into the United States increased (E) the average price of manufactured goods fell significantly. 6. The establishment of transcontinental rail lines and the construction of Americas massive rail network had all of the following effects except: (A) they led to the rapid industrialization of the Old South following the Civil War (B) they allowed for rapid distribution of goods throughout the country (C) their building spurred a series of important technical advances (D) they made the country smaller in the sense that they dramatically reduced the time needed to traverse this continent (E) they resulted in the establishment of standardized time zones throughout the country. Gilded Age ideology 7. "The growth of a large business is merely the survival of the fittest. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working out of the law of nature and a law of God. The above quotation by John D. Rockefeller is an example of (A) Christian Socialism (B) Utopian Socialism (C) Social Darwinism (D) the Gospel of Wealth (E) Nationalism. Sherman Anti-trust Act (trust-busting) 8. A fundamental purpose of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) was to (A) restore business competition and a self regulating economy (B) give the states the power to break up large business corporations (C) establish strict federal controls over business practices (D) increase the power of labor unions in their negotiations with big business (E) establish federally regulated monopolies in railroad and other public utilities.

9. Labor unrest in the 1870s & 1880s resulted in a. Congresss passing legislation supporting the formation of labor unions

b. c. d. e.

A ban on Irish immigration The use of federal troops during strikes Congressional acts to ban strikes Growing middle class support for labor

10. An important consequence of the Haymarket Square Bombing of 1886 was that (A) public opinion shifted in favor of union activities (B) the American Federation of Labor lost support (C) Congress restricted the power of labor unions (D) the Knights of Labor gained support (E) skilled workers abandoned the Knights of Labor for the American Federation of Labor. 11. A fundamental difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was that the Knights (A) focused exclusively on issues of higher wages and better working conditions (B) restricted their membership to skilled workers in each trade (C) demanded the abolition of all private property (D) welcomed all skilled and unskilled workers, blacks, and women (E) welcomed all skilled and unskilled workers, but not women and blacks. New Immigration 12. The New Immigration was made up primarily of (A) Europeans who came for economic rather than religious reasons (B) Europeans who were better off financially than those of the Old Immigration (C) persons from Northern and Western Europe (D) persons from Southern and Eastern Europe (E) persons from Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Jane Addams 13. Jane Addams was a turn-of-the century activist, most well-known for her work in (A) settlement houses (B) the temperance movement (C) nursing home care for war veterans (D) suffrage movement (E) childrens literature. Pragmatism, John Dewey & Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (pg 580-581) 14. All of the following statements are true of John Dewey except: (A) He strove to alter radically both the content and purpose of schooling (B) He strove to strengthen the childs respect for parental and other traditional authority (C) He substituted the authority of the peer group for that of the teacher so that the child would be socialized and schooling made relevant to him (D) He was much inflamed by William James (E) He has been called the father of Progressive Education. Feminists 15. This feminist of the late nineteenth century authored the landmark feminist book, Women and Economics (1898), in which she advocated that women be made able to hold jobs and participate in the larger economy of the nation by freeing them from domestic labor through centralized nurseries and cooperative kitchens (A) Charlotte Perkins Gilman (B) Susan B Anthony (C) Emily Dickinson (D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (E) Carrie Chapman Catt Morrill Act of 1862 & the land-grant colleges 16. The Morrill Land Grant Act provided (A) one hundred sixty acres of free land within the public domain to any head of household who would settle on it and improve it over a period of five years (B) large amounts of federal government

land to states that would establish agricultural and mechanical colleges (C) forty acres of land to former slaves (D) that the land of former Confederates should not be confiscated (E) large reservations for the Indians of the Great Plains. WEB Dubois 17. Which of the following is true of W.E.B. Du Bois? (A) He founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (B) He was the chief author of the Atlanta Compromise (C) He was an outspoken critic of the Niagara Movement (D) He believed that blacks should temporarily accommodate themselves to the whites (E) He worked closely with Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington 18. Booker T. Washington believed that (A) blacks could achieve equal rights by proving themselves through hard work (B) blacks should accept the role a White dominated society assigned to them (C) W.E.B. DuBois was too moderate (D) blacks should actively protest against discriminatory laws (E) The NAACP served elitist causes. Bonus: 19. All of the following statements are true of Henry George except: (A) He argued that increasing prosperity was causing increasing poverty (B) He believed government should take a laissez-faire philosophy (C) He asserted that economic inequality was the result of private ownership of land (D) He favored a single tax on the unearned increment of land (E) He desired large-scale public works. 20. Edward Bellamys book Looking Backward was (A) a fictional expose of the meat packing industry (B) a detailed program for social reform (C) the catalyst of the social gospel movement (D) a denunciation of machine politics in big city government (E) a futuristic Utopian fantasy.