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Directions: Provide the best answer for each question in bold type the correct answer (10 points, ½ point per question).


1. The railroads became the first major undertaking for the following reasons except
A. They demanded a better organization because they were spread over large distances.
B. They have stimulated demand for iron, coal and steel.
C. They received huge government land grants.
D. They were one of the first companies to serve a national market.

2. What percentage of world production of goods not on behalf of the United States in 1900
A. 1:10
B. 1/5th.
C. 1/4th
D. 1/3rd.

3. Mass production has led to large retailers and all the following EXCEPT
A. national advertising campaigns such as "Uneeda" biscuits.
B. Chain stores like Woolworth's and A & P.
C. mail order houses like Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward.
D. sellers door to door as "beaters" for patented drugs.

4. In the late nineteenth century the consolidation of business in a small number of larger firms and more
A. Increase the speed and the number after the Sherman Antitrust Act was passed.
B. ended with the Sherman Antitrust Act.
C. has been slowed by court decisions favoring a competitive market.
D. stopped when the public realized that the government was to support him.

5. The theories developed to justify the acquisition of great wealth in the late nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT
A. The Gospel of Wealth. "
B. Social Darwinism.
C. William Graham Sumner "natural" order.
D. "Gospel of work ."?????????????????????????????????

6. The theory argues that in human society as in nature, the struggle is the key to progress because it produces the "survival of the fittest" is
A. Law of the jungle
B. Gospel of Wealth
C. Christian Darwinism
D. Social Darwinism
7. The arguments of social Darwinism and William Graham Sumner
A. lead to the conclusion that hard work should be rewarded.
B. Propose that all laws to control the working conditions would be detrimental to society.
C. Show that any person who works hard to succeed and become rich.
D. Making a case for legislation to set minimum wages and maximum hours.

8. Mechanization of production
A. Led for workers earning more than a voice in production decisions.
B. means that skilled craftsmen could control the unskilled.
C. Eliminating the practice of paying to play.
D. Increased pressure on workers in a workplace more dangerous.

9. The Knights of Labor
A. tried to organize the Chinese workers.
B. pleaded for a shorter workday.
C. African Americans excluded.
D. focused on "pure and simple unionism."

10. Work organization dedicated to the organization of skilled workers to obtain better working conditions, wages and hours has been the
A. American Federation of Labor
B. Knights of Labor
Teamsters C.
D. Workers International World

11. The AFL and its president, Samuel Gompers, found throughout the following except
A. The organization of unskilled workers, blacks and women.
B. The family wage, "to be won by men.
C. Interest mainly skilled workers.
D. "Pure and simple unionism."

12. The efforts of the New South to build the South as a region economically prosperous independent largely failed
A. Due to a drastic fall in world market prices of cotton
B. Because there was not educated and trolling.