1. Within twenty years of the first oil discovery, ____ Oil Company controlled 90 percent of the country's petroleum
A.National
B.Standard
C.U.S. Oil
D.American Standard
E.American Petroleum

2. The Pullman Strike failed because
A.workers lacked conviction for their cause.
B.President Grover Cleveland sent in troops to break the strike's center in Chicago.
C.the company owner George Pullman simply rehired the men he had fired before the breakout of the strike.
D.anarchists threw bombs at police during the event.
E.the leadership of Socialist Eugene Debs was too heavy-handed.

3. Abilene, Kansas was the nation's first "cow town" because
A.from here, cattle could be shipped by rail to meatpacking plants in Chicago.
B.Abilene city-bosses had lobbied Congress to become the nation's first town for cattle shipment.
C.most cowboys came from Kansas.
D.barbed wire was invented here.
E.the town had an old and established meatpacking tradition.

4.Between 1860 and 1915, America's rail lines grew from 30,000 miles of track to more than
A.250,000 miles.
B.100,000 miles.
C.200,000 miles.
D.150,000 miles.
E.300,000 miles.

5.Which of the following statements was true of the Homestead Strike?
A.During the strike, an anarchist assassinated Carnegie.
B.Carnegie had laid off a large number of workers, and that had triggered the strike.
C.It took place at Carnegie's steel plant in Chicago.
D.Even guards from the famous Pinkerton Agency refused to take the job of entering the plant.

6.The Homestead Act of 1862 provided a way for settlers to move West, occupy land for five years, and then claim as their own a total of
A.1600 acres.
B.120 acres.
C.160 acres.
D.4,000 acres.
E.640 acres.

7.Andrew Carnegie made his fortune with the help of the Bessemer converter which
A.refined large amounts of sugar within less than 2 minutes.
B.transformed large quantities of iron ore into steel by using extremely hot air.
C.employed the assembly line technique for rapid manufacturing processes.
D.refined crude oil into gasoline, diesel, and lubricants.
E.identified large coal deposits as far as 2000 feet below ground.

8.Andrew Carnegie's steel was used in which of the following American projects?
A.Statue of Liberty
B.White House
C.Lincoln Monument
D.Brooklyn Bridge
E.Transcontinental Railroad

9.Carnegie's business model of controlling all aspects of the steel industry, from iron ore extraction to steel delivery, is known as
A.a monopoly.
B.horizontal integration
C.profit consolidation.
D.absolute control.
E.vertical integration.

10.Which was true for most immigrants to America?
A.Most had little knowledge of English, so they commanded only the lowest paying jobs.
B.Most had little education.
C.Most remained close to the cities where they had landed  the East coast's large cities.
D.All of these statements were true of late 19th century immigrants.
E.They usually had little or no understanding of American culture.