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The Era of Expansion and Reform (11)Conflict Abroad, Social Change at Home (9)

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How many patents were granted in the United States in the years before 1860?Read the answer and worked solution →Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a child of 12. Where did he begin work?Read the answer and worked solution →How was a trust formed out of separate corporations?Read the answer and worked solution →How did the practice of rebating part of the freight charge work?Read the answer and worked solution →

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How many patents were granted in the United States in the years before 1860?

  1. About 440,000 patents
  2. About 940,000 patents
  3. About 36,000 patents
  4. About 16,000 patents
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Correct answer: C. About 36,000 patents

1. 1. Patent counts are given for three stretches of time in a row. 2. 2. The figure for the years before 1860 is 36,000. 3. 3. The much larger figures belong to the decades that followed, so they are the wrong stretch. 4. 4. The rise from 36,000 is itself the point being made about the speed of invention after the war. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE ERA OF EXPANSION AND REFORM_

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Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a child of 12. Where did he begin work?

  1. As a bobbin boy in a cotton factory
  2. As a clerk in a shipping office
  3. As a driver on a canal barge
  4. As a miner in an iron quarry
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Correct answer: A. As a bobbin boy in a cotton factory

1. 1. His first job is named directly: bobbin boy in a cotton factory. 2. 2. From there he moved to a telegraph office and then to the Pennsylvania Railroad. 3. 3. Only after those jobs did he begin the investments that ended in iron. 4. 4. The other options name work he is never said to have done. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section INDUSTRY GROWS BIGGER_

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How was a trust formed out of separate corporations?

  1. Trustees bought every share on the market
  2. Each corporation kept its own directors
  3. Workers were given shares in each company
  4. Stockholders handed their stocks to trustees
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Correct answer: D. Stockholders handed their stocks to trustees

1. 1. A trust is described as a combination of corporations rather than a single firm. 2. 2. The mechanism is the stockholders of each corporation placing their stocks in the hands of trustees. 3. 3. Those trustees then managed the business of all the corporations together. 4. 4. That is why the form gave centralized control and administration and allowed patents to be pooled. 5. 5. No purchase on the open market is described, so the second option invents a method. 6. 6. Keeping separate directors would defeat the centralized control the form existed to create. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section INDUSTRY GROWS BIGGER_

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