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THE UNFINISHED NATION CHAPTER 17 -20
(100% VERIFIED)
- The two methods of transforming iron into steel that emerged
in the 1850s and 1860s were:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: the Bessemer-Kelly method
and the open-hearth process.
- In the nineteenth century, the early petroleum industry
concentrated in what states?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Pennsylvania, Ohio, and
West Virginia
- The production of gasoline-powered automobiles began in the
United States during the:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: 1900s.
- Frederick Winslow Taylor's theory of "scientific
management" advocated:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: reorganizing the production
process by subdividing tasks to speed up production and reduce the dependency on highly skilled workers.
- The popularization of mass production by moving assembly
line is generally credited to:
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- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Henry Ford and the
automobile industry.
- What legal principle was crucial to the ability of corporations
to sell large amounts of stock to investors not directly involved in the business?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Limited liability
- Andrew Carnegie built his dominance in the steel industry by
which business integration strategy?
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Vertical
- The enormously influential New York City banker who
helped perfect the trust and created United States Steel from
Carnegie Steel was:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: J. P. Morgan.
9. Horatio Alger was famous for his books that:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: told of poor boys who found
success through hard work, perseverance, and luck.
- In the late nineteenth century, the majority of working
children were employed in:
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- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: agriculture.
11. The nation's first major national labor conflict was the:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: 1877 railroad strike.
12. The nation's first major national labor organization was the:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Knights of Labor.
- The leader of the American Federation of Labor in the 1880s
and 1890s was:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Samuel Gompers.
- In the mind of middle-class Americans, the code word for
the labor radicalism and violence of the 1880s and 1890s was:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: anarchism.
- The two major strikes of the 1890s that were marred by
violence and that tainted the image of unions in public opinion
were the:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: Homestead steel strike and
Pullman railroad strike.
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- Because of rapid growth in the latter nineteenth century,
American cities:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: provided services and
facilities inadequate to demands.
- An important population trend that occurred in the United
States from 1860 to 1910 was:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: a faster rate of growth for
the cities than for the general population.
- The movement of blacks from the rural South to industrial
cities began during the latter nineteenth century because of:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: poverty and oppression in
the South.
- The new immigrants of the latter nineteenth century settled
primarily in Eastern industrial cities because they:
- THE CORRECT ANSWER is: [The document does not
provide a complete answer; it ends abruptly. Assuming context from historical knowledge, a likely completion is "sought job opportunities in industrial centers." However, based solely on the provided text, no specific answer is given.]