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Chapter 18: An Industrial Giant

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
This quiz reviews some of the topics in this chapter. The answer choices are randomized, so the quiz will be different every time you take it. For each question, select the button next to the answer you believe is correct. When you are done, click “Submit for Grade” in order to see how well you did.

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	Munn v. Illinois   permitted legislatures to regulate rail and warehouse rates within a state. discontinued rail subsidies. upheld the right of organized labor to bargain collectively. ruled that interstate shipping rates should be "reasonable and just." ruled that only Congress could regulate interstate commerce.

	The expansion of industry after the Civil War was accompanied by the concentration of ownership into larger, but fewer organizations. The causes of this trend included all the following EXCEPT   the growing importance of expensive machinery. deflation. economies of large-scale production. the downward trend in prices throughout the economy. lack of competition.

	All of the following were invented by Thomas Edison EXCEPT the   multiplex telegraph cable. telephone. phonograph. incandescent light bulb. motion picture projector.

	The Haymarket Riot   resulted when security guards employed by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, opened fire on striking workers. resulted when someone threw a bomb into the ranks of the police at a mass meeting in Chicago. was caused by actions of the Knights of Labor. caused the decline of the American Railway Union. demonstrated broad support unions had gained by 1886.

	Ultimately, which union was the most successful in the late nineteenth century?   Knights of Labor American Federation of Labor National Labor Union Industrial Workers of the World American Railway Union

	The first corporation to have a capitalization of over $1 billion was   U.S. Steel. American Sugar Refining Company. General Electric. Standard Oil of Ohio. Union Pacific.

	Radical theorists and utopians like Henry George, Henry Demarest Lloyd, and Edward Bellamy all insisted that reform of the American economy   required a heavy tax on speculative land holdings. would be a grave error. could occur peacefully and orderly. required state ownership of all means of production. was essentially hopeless.

	The Standard Oil trust was primarily formed to   avoid taxation. gain monopoly status for the Rockefeller interests in the oil business. evade Ohio laws regarding business activity in other states. push competitors out of the Ohio market. lower interest rates.

	All of the following refer to the Sherman Act EXCEPT   it forbade combinations "in the form of trusts" and "in restraint of trade among the several states or with foreign nations." it was vaguely worded and not strictly enforced. it led to a rapid decline in the formation of new trusts after 1890. it was quickly curtailed by the Supreme Court. it carried fines of up to $5,000 and a year in jail for violation.

	Who threw the bob in Haymarket Square?   The thrower's identity remains a mystery. Emma Goldman Eugene Debs Terence Powderly an anarchist

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