Chapter 17: The Busy Hive: Industrial America
at Work, 1877–1911
iClicker Questions for America’s History,
Seventh Edition and America: A Concise
History, Fifth Edition
1. A cattle dealer who built a stockyard
company based on vertical integration was
A.
B.
C.
D.
Gustavus F. Swift.
John Murray Forbes.
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Jay Gould.
2.
Most of the immigrants without industrial skills
who flooded into American factories came from
A.
B.
C.
D.
northern Europe.
Ireland.
southern and eastern Europe.
Latin America.
3. The emergence of modern labor
management was characterized by
A. a proliferation of job openings for highly skilled
craftspeople.
B. increasing worker autonomy in the workplace.
C. the elimination of brain work from manual labor.
D. decreasing efficiency in industry.
4.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Eugene V. Debs was the leader of the
anarchists.
Socialist Party of America.
Knights of Labor.
American Federation of Labor.
5. The Burlingame Treaty was signed between
the United States and
A.
B.
C.
D.
France.
Canada.
China.
Great Britain.
6. John D. Rockefeller pioneered a business
strategy that became known as
A.
B.
C.
D.
blue-collar.
white-collar.
horizontal integration.
piecework.
7.
In the 1890s, few women in the United States
worked as
A.
B.
C.
D.
salespeople.
telephone operators.
packers and assemblers.
skilled tradespeople.
8. Samuel Gompers became president of which
of the following labor organizations?
A.
B.
C.
D.
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
Socialists
I.W.W.
9. By 1890, 21 states had passed what kind of
laws to prevent monopolies?
A.
B.
C.
D.
antitrust
yellow-dog
white-collar
Greenback
10. The Knights of Labor believed that reform
could best be achieved by creating
A. a cooperative commonwealth where workers owned
and ran the factories.
B. a political party that was devoted to the interests of
labor.
C. strong craft-based unions that were able to bargain
successfully with management.
D. a tightly knit union that excluded nonwhites and
women.
Answer Key for Chapter 17
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Answer is A
Answer is C
Answer is C
Answer is B
Answer is C
Answer is C
Answer is D
Answer is A
Answer is A
Answer is A