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$1,000,000 Example of how it looks when complete, click on-screen show to view the animations B - correct answer A - answer C - answer D - answer B - correct answer

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$100 Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan were sometimes called robber barons because they B – supported charities A – robbed from the rich and gave to the poor C – used cut-throat business tactics to grow rich D – helped create jobs for American workers C – used cut-throat business tactics to grow rich

$200 One factor that furthered industrialization in the US between 1865 and 1900 B – limitation of foreign immigration A – expansion of railroads C – refusal to use mass production D – dependence on animal power A – expansion of railroads

$500 Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth said that the rich should B – directly shared their profits with workers A – leave their fortune to heirs C – set up company towns for workers D – donate money to their community D - donate money to their community

$1,000 Terrence Powderly, Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers were leaders in the movement to B – prohibit the production and consumption of alcohol A – provide settlement houses to help immigrants C – promote business the expense of workers D – improve working conditions

$2,000 A reason labor unions had difficulty achieving their goals was because B – gov’t usually supported businesses over labor A – there was a shortage of workers C – industrialization created better working conditions D – businesses promoted labor officials B – gov’t usually supported businesses over labor

$4,000 The Railroad Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Affair of 1886 and the Pullman Strike of 1894 show that labor unions of that period were B – not supported by most workers A – sometimes willing to break laws to achieve their goals C – firmly committed to laissez faire capitalism D – supported by the Fed’l gov’t during labor disputes A – sometimes willing to break laws to achieve their goals

$8,000 The creation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act showed that B – the fed’l gov’t wouldn’t challenge businesses A – laissez-faire capitalism would be upheld by the fed’l gov’t C – the fed’l gov’t would regulate monopolies D – civil servants would be hired based on merit C – fed’l gov’t would regulate monopolies

$16,000 Protective tariffs, subsidies for RR’s, & open immigration showed that fed’l gov’t followed a policy of B – non-interference in the free-market system A – support for economic development C – regulation of unfair business practices D – support for organized labor A – support for economic development

$32,000 Businesses formed trusts, pools, and holding companies to B – offer a lg. range of goods & services to customers A – increase profits by eliminating competition C – provide employment opportunities for minorities D – protect workers A – increase profits by eliminating competition

$64,000 Carnegie Hall and the Morgan library illustrate various ways entrepreneurs and their descendants have B – used philanthropy to try to improve society A – robbed from the rich to give to the poor C – helped create good jobs for American workers D – used cut-throat business tactics to grow rich B – used philanthropy to try to improve society

$125,000 Andrew Carnegie controlled the supply of pig iron, the production of steel and the distribution of steel products. This type of business organization is known as B – vertical consolidation A – a trust C – horizontal consolidation D – a cartel B – vertical consolidation

$250,000 According to laissez-faire, the economy functions best when the government B – owns major industries A – regulates businesses C – does not interfere in business D – subsidizes business so that they can compete C – does not interfere in business

$500,000 B – concentrated on organizing workers in the South A – refused to participate in strikes against employers C – formed its own political party D – fought for the rights of skilled workerse D – fought for the rights of skilled workers The AFL was the first long-lasting, successful labor union in the U.S. because it

$1,000,000 A corporation is B – When one person owns a company A – Group ownership of a company C – The same as a monopoly D – The same as a trust A – Group ownership of a company

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