ICC History Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
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ICC History Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct
What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886? - Answer-It resulted in intensified animosity toward labor unions.
Who founded Standard Oil? - Answer-John D. Rockefeller
Which of the following was not one of the ways ...
ICC History Midterm Exam Questions and Answers All Correct What was the result of the Haymarket Square bombing in 1886? - Answer -It resulted in intensified animosity toward labor unions. Who founded Standard Oil? - Answer -John D. Rockefeller Which of the following was not one of the ways that Andrew Carnegie revolutionized the steel industry? - Answer -restructuring the criteria for wages so that his workers could have the highest wage scales in the country. Which of the following was not one of the features that dominated the world of large -
scale manufacturing after the Civil War? - Answer -a new focus on energy conservation and finding alternatives to fossil fuels. What did Henry Grady advocate? - Answer -He advocated diversifying the economy and expanding industrial production in the South. The 1892 World's Columbian Exposition was - Answer -a World's Fair held in Chicago, Illinois. The Sherman Anti -Trust Act - Answer -outlawed trusts and other monopolies that fixed prices in restraint of trade. Mary Harris Jones - Answer -was a leader of the United Mine Workers of America who expanded its membership by stressing the need to fight for families. How did industrialization affect skilled craftsmen? - Answer -Subdividing the manufacture of a product into smaller jobs meant that an individual no longer manufactured an entire product. Where did Andrew Carnegie learn many of the successful management methods he used in the steel? - Answer -as an employee of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Which of the following did Thomas Edison invent? - Answer -Phonograph Which of the following statements concerning the use of technology in industry in the second half of the nineteenth century is true? - Answer -It made it possible for manufacturers to hire cheap unskilled or semiskilled labor. What did Karl Marx argue? - Answer -that capitalists would eventually bring about their own destruction by driving impoverished workers to revolt. Why was the Interstate Commerce Commission established? - Answer -to investigate and oversee railroad activities. Why did women join the work force in growing numbers in the late nineteenth century? - Answer -Changes in agriculture brought young farm women into the industrial labor force, and immigrant daughters worked to supplement meager family incomes. Which of the following issues did not impede the growth of unions in the late 19th century? - Answer -Lack of interest on the part of workers because their real wages were rising and conditions were improving The Piedmont is an area stretching - Answer -from Virginia to Alabama. How did southern cotton mills differ from northern cotton mills in the 1880s? - Answer -
Southern cotton mills were located in the countryside rather than cities. In the United States v. Knight Company, the Supreme Court diminished the effectiveness of the Sherman Anti -Trust Act by ruling that - Answer -manufacturing was not interstate commerce. Which of the following was the result of the rapid industrial development of the United States between 1860 and 1900? - Answer -an economy dominated by enormous corporations. What did Henry George argue in Progress and Poverty? - Answer -that the government should tax the "unearned increment" of rising land prices and use the funds to ameliorate the misery caused by industrialization. In the late nineteenth century, child labor was - Answer -common in the coal mines and cotton mills. Which the immigrants in the West bore the brunt of labor hostility in the 1870s and 1880s? - Answer -Chinese immigrants Besides the fact that its all -inclusive membership undermined its unity, why did the Knights of Labor collapse in the late 1880s? - Answer -Workers became disillusioned when a series of unauthorized strikes failed.
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