Amsco Chapter 16 Questions With Complete Solutions 2023/2024

transatlantic cable {Ans: In 1866, Cyrus W. Field's invention allowed messages to be sent across the oceans. (p. 325)}Alexander Graham Bell {Ans: Inventor of the telephone, 1876}Sherman Antitrust Act {Ans: In 1890, Congress passed this act, which prohibited any "contract, combination, in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce." The U.S. Department of Justice secured few convictions until the law was strenghted during the Progressive era. (p. 324)}Credit Mobilier {Ans: Insiders used construction companies to bribe government officials and make huge profits. (p. 321)}William Graham Sumner {Ans: An English social philosopher, he argued for Social Darwism, the belief that Darwin's ideas of natural slection and survival of the fittest should be applied to the marketpalce and society. (p. 324)}Cornelius Vanderbilt {Ans: He merged local railroads into the New York Central Railroad, which ran from New York City to Chicago. (p. 320)}women and children factory workers {Ans: By 1900, 20 percent of adult woman working for wages in the labor force. Most were young and single women, only 5 percent of married women worked outside the home. (p. 327)}John D. Rockefeller {Ans: He started Standard Oil