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Chapter 18: An Industrial Giant

True/False Quiz

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	After 1865, railroad construction was generally geared toward integrating networks of new and existing lines.    True  False

	"Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt was the dominant railroad system builder in the Southwest in late nineteenth-century America.    True  False

	The Bessemer process of steel manufacturing was superior to the open-hearth process because it produced a higher quality of steel.    True  False

	In the late nineteenth century, price deflation and intense competition accompanied economic expansion and monopolization.    True  False

	Thomas Edison, thanks to watertight patent laws, greatly profited from his invention of the electric light.    True  False

	By 1890, J.P. Morgan dominated the U.S. steel industry.    True  False

	A major innovation in retailing in the late nineteenth century was the growth of large department stores in American cities.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	One consequence of the forming of monopolies in the economy in the late nineteenth century was a general decline in prices.    True  False

	In The Cooperative Commonwealth, Laurence Gronlund tried to explain Marxian principles to Americans and persuade them to abandon capitalism peacefully in favor of socialism.    True  False

	The 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act was primarily designed to prevent labor unions from winning concessions from business by use of the strike.    True  False

	Organized labor experienced a great boost in membership after the Haymarket bombing.    True  False

	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.    True  False

	Twice as many strikes occurred in 1886 as the previous year.    True  False

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