Multiple Choice
Identify the
letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Negotiations between groups a. | arbitration | c. | poker talks | b. | collective bargaining
| d. | group
collectivization | | | | |
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Union
leader a. | J.P.
Morgan | c. | Henry Ford | b. | Rudolph
Valintino | d. | Samuel Gompers | | | | |
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A
plan, usually secret a. | frequency | c. | scheme | b. | schematic | d. | instruction manual | | | | |
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Union
of radicals and socialists a. | Democrat Party | c. | Congress of Industrial Workers
(CIO) | b. | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
| d. | Republican Party | | | | |
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Situation in which one company controlled an entire industry a. | monopoly | c. | mercantilism | b. | capitalism | d. | interstate commerce | | | | |
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Process in which a company buys out its suppliers a. | monopoly | c. | horizontal integration | b. | Federal trust | d. | vertical integration | | | | |
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Inventor of the typewriter a. | Christopher Sholes | c. | William Singer | b. | Hill Singer | d. | Thomas Edison | | | | |
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Relating to the sexes a. | gender | c. | bias | b. | orientation | d. | fetal | | | | |
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Theory
that taught only the strong survived in business and life a. | Social Darwinism
| c. | Capitalism | b. | Socialism | d. | “Turn the other cheek” | | | | |
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First
person to use steam engine to drill for oil a. | Edwin L. Drake | c. | Eli Whitney | b. | Thomas Edison | d. | Nelson Rockefeller | | | | |
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Technique used to make steel from iron a. | Kiln Flaming | c. | Boiler process | b. | Bessemer process
| d. | Carnegie process | | | | |
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Law
granting Congress authority to regulate railroad activities a. | Congressional Powers
Act | c. | Railroad Act | b. | Sherman Anti Trust
Act | d. | Interstate Commerce Act
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A
share of ownership in a company a. | stock | c. | wedge | b. | Socialist | d. | pledge | | | | |
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One
who leaves a country to settle in another a. | immigrant | c. | nationalist | b. | urban dweller | d. | agriculturalist | | | | |
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Scottish immigrant who became a giant in the steel industry a. | John Fitzgerald
Kennedy | c. | Andrew Pittsburgh | b. | Andrew Carnegie
| d. | William Penn | | | | |
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A
large snowfall down a mountainside a. | mudslide | c. | hail storm | b. | ski slope | d. | avalanche | | | | |
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A
leader of the mine workers union a. | John Rockefeller | c. | Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
| b. | Samuel
Gompers | d. | Alvan Barkley | | | | |
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System
based on government control of business and property a. | socialism | c. | capitalism | b. | individualism | d. | libertarianism | | | | |
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A
leader in a business or industry a. | industrialist | c. | CPA | b. | accountant | d. | union leader | | | | |
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a
railroad that crosses the entire country a. | intrastate railroad | c. | transamerica | b. | transcontinental railroad
| d. | Union Atlantic | | | | |
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Law
that outlawed trusts a. | Immigration Reform Act | c. | Interstate Commerce Act | b. | Sherman Antitrust Act
| d. | Taft Hartley Act | | | | |
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Corporation formed by separate companies a. | consolidated
business | c. | separate
corporation | b. | trust | d. | single corporation | | | | |
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Corporation that bought out the stock of other companies a. | trust | c. | venture capitalism | b. | stock swindle | d. | holding company | | | | |
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Process in which companies producing similar products merge a. | horizontal consolidation
| c. | trusteeship | b. | vertical
consolidation | d. | similarity
consolidation | | | | |
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case
that gave government right to regulate private industry a. | Brown v. Board of
Education | c. | Munn v. Illinois Court
| b. | Dred Scott
Case | d. | Smith v. AT&T | | | | |
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Head
of Standard Oil Company a. | Andrew Carnage | c. | John D. Rockefeller | b. | Thomas
Westinghouse | d. | Henry Ford | | | | |
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Name
of company involved in stealing of railroad money a. | Bank of America | c. | Crédit Mobilier | b. | AT&T | d. | International Workers of the
World | | | | |
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Name
of union led by Gompers a. | American Textile Union
(ATU) | c. | American Federation of Labor (AFL)
| b. | United Machinists
Union (UMU) | d. | National Education Association
(NEA) | | | | |
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To put
money towards something in the hope of future profit a. | devest | c. | divest | b. | invest | d. | divert | | | | |
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Inventor of the sleeping car a. | Samuel Serta | c. | George M. Pullman | b. | Thomas Edison | d. | Henry Ford | | | | |
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Immoral or dishonest a. | corrupt | c. | capitalist | b. | socialist | d. | intelligent | | | | |
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Inventor of the telephone a. | Ma Bell | c. | Alexander Graham Bell | b. | Frank Pactel | d. | Thomas Edison | | | | |
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Leader
of the American Railway Union a. | John L. Lewis | c. | Thomas Pullman | b. | Samuel
Gompers | d. | Eugene V. Debs | | | | |
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Inventor of the light bulb a. | Alexander Bell | c. | Thomas Alva Edison | b. | Eli Whitney | d. | John Westinghouse | | | | |
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Someone who studies the origin, history, and structure of the earth a. | geologist | c. | biologist | b. | physicalogist | d. | historian | | | | |
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A type
of rock a. | biosphere | c. | birch | b. | granite | d. | glass | | | | |
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