The American Yawp Ch. 16 Exam Questions Marking Scheme 2024 Update
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The American Yawp Ch. 16 Exam Questions Marking Scheme 2024 Update
The Great Railroad Strike - Answer -1877-Workers struck from Baltimore to St. Louis, shutting down railroad traffic—the nation's economic lifeblood—across the country.
The head of the Pennsylvania Railroad - Answer -Thom...
The American Yawp Ch. 16 Exam Questions Marking Scheme 2024 Update The Great Railroad Strike - Answer -1877 -Workers struck from Baltimore to St. Louis, shutting down railroad traffic —the nation's economic lifeblood —across the country. The head of the Pennsylvania Railroad - Answer -Thomas An drew Scott Who suggested that if workers were unhappy with their wages, they should be given "a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread? - Answer -Thomas Scott A month of chaos erupted. Strikers set fire to the city, destroying...(3 main things) - Answer -dozens of buildings over a hundred engines over a thousand cars. Nearly 100 Americans died in... - Answer -The Great Upheaval Workers destroyed nearly $_____ worth of property - Answer -40 million Workers struck from ______ to ______ shutting down railroad traffic —the nation's economic lifeblood —across the country. - Answer -Baltimore to St.Louis Courts, police, and state militias suppressed the strikes, but it was _______ ________ that finally defeated them - Answer -federal troops The greatest strikes first hit the railroads only because - Answer -no other industry had so effectively marshaled together capital, government support, and bureaucratic managemen t. The post -Civil War era saw revolutions in ________ _________ - Answer -American Industry National Credit Agencies - Answer -eased the uncertainties surrounding rapid movement of capital among investors, manufacturers, and retailers Plummeting transpo rtation and communication costs opened - Answer -new national media, which advertising agencies used to nationalize various products. By the turn of the century, corporate leaders and wealthy industrialists embraced the new principles of scientific manage ment aka - Answer -Taylorism Taylorism was named after its noted proponent: - Answer -Frederick Taylor Frederick Taylor urged all manufacturers to increase efficiency by: - Answer -
Subdividing tasks Taylorism did what? - Answer -increased the scale and scope of manufacturing and allowed for the flowering of mass production. Singer sewing machines, Chicago packers' "disassembly" lines, McCormick grain reapers, Duke cigarette rollers: - Answer -all rea lized unprecedented efficiencies and achieved unheard -of levels of production that propelled their companies into the forefront of American business Cyrus McCormick - Answer -had overseen the construction of mechanical reapers (used for harvesting wheat) for decades. He had relied on skilled blacksmiths, skilled machinists, and skilled woodworkers to handcraft horse -drawn machines. What did McCormick do in 1880? - Answer -hired a production manager who had overseen the manufacturing of Colt firearms to tr ansform his system of production The company had produced _______ machines in 1880 - Answer -21,000 The American economy had lagged behind Britain, Germany, and France as recently as the 1860s, but by 1900 the United States was - Answer -the world's lead ing manufacturing nation Thirteen years later, by 1913, the United States produced _______ of the world's industrial output —more than Britain, France, and Germany combined. - Answer -1/3 A new class of managers —comprising what one prominent economic hist orian called the _______ ________ operated between the worlds of workers and owners and ensured the efficient operation and administration of mass production and mass distribution - Answer -Visible Hand A ______ _________ threatened the promise of investm ents - Answer -competitive marketplace American industrial firms tried everything to avoid competition: - Answer -formed informal pools and trusts, entered price -fixing agreements, divided markets, and, when blocked by antitrust laws and renegade price cu tting, merged into consolidations Between 1895 and 1904, and peaking between 1898 and 1902, a wave of mergers rocked the American economy. Competition melted away in what is known as the _______ _________ __________ - Answer -great merger movement
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