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Grade 10 Industrialization
Many of the business trusts created in the late 1800s were eventually declared illegal primarily because they
  1. eliminated competition by forming monopolies
  2. combined companies that manufactured different products
  3. donated large sums of money to political candidates
  4. allowed children to work under unsafe conditions
Grade 9 Industrialization
Why did Henry Clay want to reestablish the Bank of the U.S.?
  1. To print more currency
  2. To increase tariffs
  3. To unite the northern and southern regions of the U.S.
  4. To control the nation's money supply and banking
Grade 10 Industrialization

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The country was connected from coast to coast by
  1. the invention of the electric light
  2. the transcontinental railroad
  3. Standard Oil
Grade 8 Industrialization

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The name of the leading oil company in the early years was                       .
  1. Pittsburgh Oil Company
  2. Standard Oil Company
  3. Rockefeller Oil
  4. The Petroleum Pit
Grade 4 Industrialization
Grade 10 Industrialization
Andrew Carnegie was known for this term, which means all factors of production are owned by a business.
  1. Horizontal Integration
  2. Monopoly
  3. Vertical Intergration
  4. Perfect Competition
Grade 11 Industrialization
Which group helped regulate the railroad industry?
  1. Grange
  2. Democrats
  3. Republicans
  4. Government
Grade 8 Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution refers to
  1. a rejection of mechanical instruments in favor of natural implements.
  2. a continuous rise in prices that spirals out of control.
  3. a change in production methods from human to machine power.
  4. a secret coup that was planned by the urbanized states.
Grade 5 Industrialization
Who is credited with inventing the telegraph?
  1. Benjamin Franklin
  2. Eli Whitney
  3. Marcus Whitman
  4. Samuel Morse
Grade 8 Industrialization
Besides the cotton gin, which of the following items did Eli Whitney also invent?
  1. interchangeable parts
  2. telegraph
  3. steam engine
  4. musket
Grade 11 Industrialization
What problem occurred for railroad crews when traveling from East to West?
  1. The long distance cause meat to spoil
  2. The tracks werent completed in cetain areas
  3. There were no time zones
  4. Indians would attack the trains
Grade 10 Industrialization
The Interstate Commerce Act (1887), the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), and the Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) are similar in that they were intended to
  1. reaffirm the federal government’s laissez faire attitude toward big business.
  2. increase the federal government’s power to regulate business practices.
  3. authorize the breakup of labor unions.
  4. reject the use of trust busting.
Grade 5 Industrialization
Grade 8 Industrialization

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Grade 6 Industrialization
Grade 8 Industrialization
An early slogan of labor reformers was
  1. Work hard, work long, and our reward will be more of the good life.
  2. Eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep, and eight hours for God and the brethren.
  3. All for the factory, all for the boss, all for the success of American business.
  4. Right and proper, right and good, our betters know what is best for us.
Grade 11 Industrialization
Who invented the airplane?
  1. Henry Bessemer
  2. Superman
  3. Wright Brothers
  4. J.P. Morgan
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