MCQ Questions
Q.1.
The California-based railroad company, headed by Leland Stanford, that employed Chinese laborers in building lines across the mountains.
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    Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
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    J. Pierpont Morgan
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    Central Pacific Railroad
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    Great Northern Railroad
Q.2.
Dishonest device by which railroad promoters artificially inflated the price of their stocks and bonds.
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    Standard Oil
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    Cornelius Vanderbilt
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    Stock Watering
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    New South
Q.3.
Aggressive eastern railroad builder and consolidator who scorned the law as an obstacle to his enterprise.
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    Andrew Carnegie
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Cornelius Vanderbilt
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    Thomas Edison
Q.4.
Public-spirited railroad builder who assisted farmers in the northern areas served by his rail lines.
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    James J. Hill
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    Russell Conwell
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    Andrew Carnegie
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    Land Grants
Q.5.
The conservative labor group that successfully organized a minority of American workers but left out.
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    American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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    League of unions
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    Samuel gompers
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    Knights of labor
Q.6.
Supreme Court case of 1886 that prevented states from regulating railroads or other forms of interstate commerce.
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    Craft Unions
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    Stock Watering
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    Wabash
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    New South
Q.7.
Southern newspaper editor who tirelessly promoted industrialization as the salvation of the economically backward South.
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    Andrew Carnegie
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    Samuel Gompers
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    Thomas Edison
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    Henry Grady
Q.8.
The first billion-dollar American corporation, organized when J.P. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie.
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    James j. hill
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    United States Steel Corporation (USSC)
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    John d. rockefeller
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    Andrew carnegie
Q.9.
Pro-business clergyman whose "Acres of Diamonds" speeches criticized the poor.
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    Russell Conwell
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    John P. Altgeld
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    Andrew Carnegie
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    Charles Dana Gibson
Q.10.
The northernmost of the transcontinental railroad lines, organized by economically wise and public-spirited industrialist James J. Hill.
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    Central Pacific Railroad
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    Great Northern Railroad
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    Terrence Powderly
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    Craft Unions
Q.11.
Secret, ritualistic labor organization that enrolled many skilled and unskilled workers but collapses suddenly after the Haymarket Square bombing.
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Knights of Labor
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    American Federation of Labor (afl)
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    Andrew Carnegie
Q.12.
Magazine illustrator who created a romantic image of the new, independent woman.
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    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Russell Conwell
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    Charles Dana Gibson
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    Andrew Carnegie
Q.13.
Eloquent leader of a secretive labor organization that made substantial gains in the 1880s before it suddenly collapsed.
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    Terence V. Powderly
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    Samuel Gompers
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Alexander Graham Bell
Q.14.
Federally owned acreage granted to the railroad companies in order to encourage the building of rail lines.
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Tax Exemptions
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    Land Grants
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    Henry Grady
Q.15.
Term that identified southern promoters' belief in a technologically advanced industrial South.
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    Wabash
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    Knights Of Labor
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    New South
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    Stock Watering
Q.16.
Federal agency, originally intended to regulate railroads, that was often used by rail companies to stablilize the industry and prevent ruinous competition.
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    Great Northern Railroad
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    Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
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    Standard Oil
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    Central Pacific Railroad
Q.17.
Inventive genius of industrialization who worked on devices such as the electric light, the phonograph, and the motion picture.
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    J. Pierpont Morgan
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    Thomas Edison
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    Andrew Carnegie
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    John D. Rockefeller
Q.18.
The only businessperson in America wealthy enough to buy out Andrew Carnegie and organize the United States Steel Corporation.
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Cornelius Vanderbilt
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    Samuel Gompers
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    J. Pierpont Morgan
Q.19.
Former California governor and organizer of the Central Pacific Railroad.
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    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Czolgosz
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    William Graham Sumner
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    Leland Standford
Q.20.
First of the great industrial trusts, organized through a principle of "horizontal integration" that ruthlessly incorporated or destroyed competitors.
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    Craft Unions
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    Stock Watering
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    Telephone
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    Standard Oil
Q.21.
Illinois governor who pardoned the Haymarket anarchists.
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    John P. Altgeld
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    Russell Conwell
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Samuel Gompers
Q.22.
Former teacher of the deaf whose invention created an entire new industry.
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Andrew Carnegie
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    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Thomas Edison
Q.23.
Black labor organization that briefly flourished in the late 1860s.
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    Samuel Gompers
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    Knights of Labor
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    Colored National Labor Union (CNLU)
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    American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Q.24.
Aggressive energy-industry monopolist who used tough means to build a trust based on "horizontal integration".
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    John D. Rockefeller
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    Alexander Graham Bell
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    Thomas Edison
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    Andrew Carnegie