Exam 16: Standardizing the Nation: Innovations in Technology, Business, and Culture, 1877-1890

The Edmunds Act __________.

Between 1890 and 1910, the three largest groups of immigrants came from Russia, Poland, and __________.

Which of the following was true of late nineteenth-century department stores?

The invention of the electric streetcar in 1888 permitted cities to __________.

What is vertical integration? How did Andrew Carnegie apply it to his steel company?

Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act after the Supreme Court had struck down state laws regulating __________.

Which city reversed the flow of a river so its sewage would flow toward the Mississippi River?

Why did U.S. businesses grow larger and more quickly than their western European counterparts in the late nineteenth century?

How did department stores reflect the new consumer culture of the late nineteenth century?

Which of the following was true of internal migration in the late nineteenth century?

New York's Tammany Hall was headquarters for __________.

The Pendleton Act did which of the following?

The election of 1884 pitted ___________ against Grover Cleveland.

The __________ process revolutionized the production of steel.

Urban machines existed to ___________.

Why did American companies form trusts?

What were the core beliefs of Social Darwinists? How did William Graham Sumner and Josiah Strong apply Social Darwinism to American society?

__________ promoted hunting activities that led to the near extinction of the buffalo.

In 1883, the Supreme Court set back the cause of blacks' civil rights by __________.

What role did urban machines play in late nineteenth-century American cities?