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The primary benefit of innovations in communication was ______.- making major improvements in the production of newspapers- making information available almost instantaneously- increasing regional differences- making business transactions more complexWhat was at the core of Terence V. Powderly's moral vision for the Knights of Labor?- going along with the demands of managers- renouncing greed and laziness- exploiting children and convicts for labor- promoting violence and extremismWhat was the first nationwide strike in the United States?the Homestead Strikethe Great Railroad Strikethe Great Upheavalthe Pullman StrikeIn 1900, about ______ of married American women held a job outside the home.15 percent25 percent5 percent35 percentBy the end of the nineteenth century, telegraph wires were handling about ______ million messages per year.36635200True or false: Workers welcomed scientific management studies that helped make them more efficient and productive.Time-and-motion studies were ______.- developed for use in the transportation industry- incorporated into workers' holidays and religious observances- used by managers to increase speed and efficiency among workers- developed by unions to help justify increasing workers' wagesAn important benefit of big business was ______.decentralized productionconcentrated powerincreased demand for capitalincreased national wealthWhich of the following is a common factor between the National Labor Union and the craft unions that formed prior to the Civil War?- Both united skilled and unskilled workers- Both remained largely local and unconnected to unskilled workers- Both allowed women industrial workers to become members- Both resisted management efforts to control workers and workplacesAs citizens of a democracy, many workers expected ______.- jobs for their family memberspersonal time to visit families back - in their homelands- opportunities to become managers and supervisors- adequate wages to help them care for and educate their familiesFrom 1880 to 1900, approximately how many workers annually were injured in industrial accidents?500,0005005,00050,000Workers resisted being treated as interchangeable parts in the industrial system by ______.- taking unauthorized days off from work- getting management to give them paid time off for saints' days- adding their input in time-and-motion studies- speeding up work to finish as quickly as possibleIndustrial work was characterized by all of the following except ______- disciplined management of work by the clock- widespread reliance on self-employed contractors- work broken down into repetitious, tedious tasks- use of machines to set the pace of workAfrican Americans resisted discrimination in industrial work by ______.- migrating to other countries for work- starting their own businesses- taking low-paying jobs serving whites- forming unions and strikingThe original trust, formed by Standard Oil's chief counsel, was designed to avoid what?workplace safety regulationsunionizationmulti-state taxesviolating state lawsThe standardized time zones created by the railroads in 1883 were ______ apart from each other.four hourstwo hoursone hourthree hoursThe "gospel of wealth" stressed that ______.- the rich should get richer- the poor should make demands on the rich- the rich should protect the poor- the poor have themselves to blame for being poorWhich of the following was key to Andrew Carnegie's success?- He built and bought during boom times.- He hired unskilled managers and taught them what they needed to know.- He focused on building his core business rather than expanding.- He kept costs down to undersell competitors.Upon what constitutional authority was the Sherman Antitrust Act based?- the right to regulate the money supply- the right to regulate interstate commerce- the right to collect taxes- the right to issue patentsWhich intellectual first applied Charles Darwin's theories of evolution to human society?Herbert SpencerWilliam Graham SumnerHenry GeorgeDaniel De Leon
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