More Gilded Age

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market? 

• boats
• railroads
• autombils 
• horse drawn carriages 

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• anthropolgy
• philanthropy

Described as a time marked by gross income inequality and corrupt practices by corporations and abuse of workers, the term "Gilded Age" was coined by what writer?

• Upton Sinclair
• Andrew Carnegie
• Mark Twian
• Henry George

A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.

• monopoly
• corporation
• trust
• horizontal Integration

Between 1860 and 1910, the U.S. population tripled due to:

• The Baby Boom
• Immigration
• The Homestead Act
• Better Healthcare

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

In the late 19th century, the ideas of Social Darwinism were used primarily to 

• explain the differences in income between the rich and the poor
• urge Congress to end immigration
• encourage the passage of compulsory education laws
• support the growth of new political parties

Who was the "captain of industry" who created the Standard Oil Trust?

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Henry Ford
• Cornelius Vanderbilt