Captains of Industry

The most important invention/improvement responsible for the growth of American industry 

• factories
• railroads
• corporations
• telephone

Known as the "Master of Steel"

• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Gustavus Swift
• Andrew Carnegie

____________ is a negative term to describe the great industrialists of the Gilded Age and __________ is a positive term to describe them.

• Robber Barons, Captains of Industry
• Captains of Industry, Robber Barons

He created the company known as Standard Oil

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

This man was known for his success in consolidating the railroads

• John D. Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Gustavus Swift

Industrialization allowed for our country to go from  _______ to ________

• consumer, producer
• handmade production , machine made production
• Captain of Industry, Robber Baron
• Rich, poor

Who was the captain of industry for shipping and railroad?

• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• J. P. Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie

J.P. Morgan was the captain of which industry?

• Banking
• Oil
• Railroad
• Coal

Between the Civil War and WWI the US was transformed from an agricultural to an _____ nation.

• industrial
• civilized
• archaic
• agrarian

Which three big businesses transformed America in the years between 1870 and 1914?

• meatpacking, automobile,  and construction
• railroads, steel and oil
• textile, meatpacking and canals
• political machines, settlement houses and ghettos