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| In the late nineteenth century, industry in the United States |
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| saw the federal government eager to assist in its growth. |
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| Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States |
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| Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful airplane flight in 1903 |
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| took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
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| In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of “Taylorism” was to |
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| make industrial production more efficient by organizing it into many simple tasks. |
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| The first significant oil production in the United States occurred in |
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| In the late nineteenth century, the social writer Henry George argued in favor of |
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| a single land tax to replace all other taxes. |
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| n the 1870s, the “internal combustion engine” was developed in |
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| Orville and Wilbur Wright’s first successful airplane flight in 1903 |
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| took place near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. |
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| In the early twentieth century, a principle goal of “Taylorism” was to |
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| make industrial production more efficient by organizing it into many simple tasks. |
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| A key to Henry Ford’s success in mass production of automobiles was |
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| the use of interchangeable parts |
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| Who among the following was NOT significantly associated with the steel industry? |
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| The business structure of Carnegie Steel was a good example of |
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| The business structure of Standard Oil was a good example of |
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| vertical and horizontal integration. |
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| To John D. Rockefeller, the great “curse” of business in the late nineteenth century was |
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| In the late nineteenth century, the first and most important promoter of Social Darwinism was |
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| The 1920 census of the United States revealed that |
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| a majority of Americans lived in “urban” areas. |
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| In the late nineteenth century, most immigrants to the United States |
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| formed close-knit ethnic communities within the cities. |
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| In the late nineteenth century, compared to other immigrant ethnic groups, Jews |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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| In the late nineteenth century, the assimilation of immigrants was encouraged by |
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| All these answers are correct. |
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| The primary goal of the American Protective Association was to |
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| stop immigrants from entering the United States. |
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| In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League |
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| proposed screening immigrants to allow only the “desirable” ones to enter. |
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| In the late nineteenth century, suburbs on the edges of American cities were largely populated by |
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| the moderately well-to-do people. |
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| Tenement buildings in urban America were |
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| initially praised as an improvement in housing for the poor. |
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| In the late nineteenth century, efforts to reduce poverty in America |
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| saw charitable organizations try to limit aid to those deemed “deserving poor.” |
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| A major consequence of industrialization in the United States was: |
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