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Chapter
Twenty-Four
Industry Comes of Age, 18651900
Much of the investment funds that
enabled America to industrialize in
the late nineteenth century came
from whom?.
During the Gilded Age, most of the
railroad barons built their railroads
with what?
How did the national government
help to finance transcontinental
railroad construction in the late
nineteenth century?
What was the only transcontinental
railroad built without government
aid?
What was the greatest economic
consequence of the transcontinental
railroad network?
What was the greatest single factor
helping to spur the amazing
industrialization of the post-Civil
War years?
When and why did the United
States change to standard time
zones?
What were the two industries that
the transcontinental railroads most
significantly expanded?
What was the term used to describe
agreements between railroad
corporations to divide the business
in a given area and share the
profits?
Early railroad owners formed
__________ in order to avoid
competition by dividing business in
a particular area.
What did the U.S. Supreme Court
rule In the case of Wabash, St.
Louis, and Pacific Railroad
Company v. Illinois?
Who initiated the first efforts to
regulate the monopolizing practices
of railroad corporations?
What was the first federal
regulatory agency designed to
protect the public interest from
business combinations?
The Interstate Commerce Act was
significant in that it represented the
first large-scale attempt by the
federal government to do what?
Which countries provided the
largest amounts of foreign capital
investment in American industry?
When Europeans owned or
invested in private companies in
the United States, who managed the
business? What was the exception?
What was the single largest source
of a critical raw material that fueled
early American industrialization?
The vast, integrated, continental
U.S. market greatly enhanced the
American inclination toward mass
manufacturing of ___________.
The American system of mass
manufacture of standardized,
interchangeable parts provided
strong incentives for U.S.
capitalists to do what?
What were two technological
innovations that greatly expanded
the industrial employment of
women in the late nineteenth
century?
What was the main method by
which post-Civil War business
leaders increased their profits?
Who pioneered the organizational
technique of vertical integration of
all facets of an industry, from raw
material to final product, within a
single company?
What did John D. Rockefeller's
organizational technique of
horizontal integration involve?
The steel industry owed much to
this inventive genius.
What is an interlocking directorate
and who used it most to undermine
competition?
What was America's first billiondollar corporation?
What was the first major product of
the oil industry?
What invention helped the oil
industry to become a huge
business?
Who wrote the “Gospel of Wealth"
and what did it suggest?
Who were the "Social Darwinists,"
what did they advocate, and from
whom did they most draw their
ideas?
What did believers in the doctrine
of "survival of the fittest," like
Herbert Spencer and William
Graham Sumner, believe?
How did the courts ingeniously
interpreted the Fourteenth
Amendment to help corporations?
What was the Sherman Anti-Trust
Act and what did it do?
What was the first primary use of
the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
During the age of industrialization,
this area remained overwhelmingly
rural and agricultural.
What was the South's major
attraction for business?
In the late nineteenth century, what
attracted textile manufacturing to
the new South?
What was the largest southernbased monopolistic corporation and
what did it produce?
Where were steady jobs and wages
available according to many
southerners?
What was one of the greatest
changes that industrialization
brought about in the lives of
workers?
Which group had their lives most
dramatically altered by the new
industrial age?
What did the image of the “Gibson
Girl” represent?
Why did most women of the 1890s
work?
How did the Supreme Court in the
late nineteenth century interpret the
Constitution in relation to business?
Which group won an eight-hour
day for government workers?
Who was barred from membership
in the Knights of Labor?
When did the Knights of Labor
believe that conflict between
capital and labor would disappear?.
In what way did the Knights of
Labor believe that republican
traditions and institutions could be
preserved?
What was one of the major reasons
the Knights of Labor failed?
What was the most effective and
most enduring labor union of the
post-Civil War period?
By 1900, how did American
attitudes toward labor begin to
change? Who continued to fight
organized labor?
What was the argument used by the
people who found fault with the
captains of industry?
Even historians critical of the
captains of industry and capitalism,
generally concede that class-based
protest has never been a powerful
force in the United States because
of this reason: find the answer