Schaller, 3e_MC 17.1

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. What did the Englishman Arthur Shadwell think of Pittsburgh after his visit in 1903?

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. What concerned late 19th-century Americans about the monopolies that emerged in, for example, the steel industry?

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. In contrast to pre-Civil War businesses, the large modern business enterprises

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. Big businesses practiced vertical integration in order to

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. Which of the following was true about the "self-made" men of the late 19th-century business world?

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. Winston Churchill's mother was born in

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. Like many other businesses in Gilded Age America, southern textile factories hired only

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. Which of the following was a significant consequence of white-collar workers' identification with business owners in Gilded Age America?

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. Why did European railroad workers only die at a third of the rate of American railroad workers?

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. Workers crafted a variety of strategies for collective action in an effort to offset the enormous power of

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. Which of the following weakened the effectiveness of the Knights of Labor?

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. Which of the following was a consequence of the Pullman Railroad strike of 1894?

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. Who formed the People's Party in 1890?

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. Which element in the Horatio Alger stories revealed an important truth about the American dream in Gilded Age America?

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