1 .		After 1865, railroad construction was generally geared toward integrating networks of new and existing lines. [Hint]  True  False
2 .		"Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt was the dominant railroad system builder in the Southwest in late nineteenth-century America. [Hint]  True  False
3 .		In the late nineteenth century, land-grant railroads often tried to recruit new settlers and land buyers in Europe. [Hint]  True  False
4 .		The Bessemer process of steel manufacturing was superior to the open-hearth process because it produced a higher quality of steel. [Hint]  True  False
5 .		In the late nineteenth century, price deflation and intense competition accompanied economic expansion and monopolization. [Hint]  True  False
6 .		Public utility companies were the first corporations in America to be capitalized on a national scale and in the hundreds of millions of dollars.   True  False
7 .		J. P. Morgan was taken to court by the federal government and charged with violating the Sherman Antitrust Act when he formed the U.S. Steel Corporation, America's first billion-dollar corporation. [Hint]  True  False
8 .		A major innovation in retailing in the late nineteenth century was the growth of large department stores in American cities. [Hint]  True  False
9 .		Most late nineteenth-century Americans responded to the growth of large industrial and financial organizations by demanding government ownership and operation of basic industries like steel, petroleum, and railroads. [Hint]  True  False
10 .		One consequence of the forming of monopolies in the economy in the late nineteenth century was a general decline in prices. [Hint]  True  False
11 .		In "The Cooperative Commonwealth," Laurence Gronlund tried to explain Marxian principles to Americans and persuade them to abandon capitalism peacefully in favor of socialism. [Hint]  True  False
12 .		The 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act was primarily designed to prevent labor unions from winning concessions from business by use of the strike. [Hint]  True  False
13 .		The labor strikes in the 1880s were the workers' response to that decade's business slump and long depression. [Hint]  True  False
14 .		President Cleveland sent U.S. troops to intervene in the Pullman Strike in 1894 on the pretext that the strike interfered with the delivery of mail. [Hint]  True  False
15 .		The centralization and concentration of industry in the late nineteenth century led to greater efficiency of production in the American economy. [Hint]  True  False