Gilded Age

What is it called when one company controls an entire industry?

• monopoly
• oligarchy
• trust
• robber baron

He created the company known as Standard Oil

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

Which of these is NOT a reason why people viewed industrial leaders as robber barons?

• wealthy manipulators of government
• unfairly squeezed out competietion
• exploited the working class
• provided progress, jobs, technolgy

Which of these is NOT a reason why industrial leaders were considered captains of industry?

• They formed monopolies
• They helped the country
• They deserved the riches they create
• They provide progress, jobs, technology

 Images such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were — 

• requiring vocational training programs for children
• employing children as a source of cheap labor
• seeking government regulation of child labor
• providing safe working conditions for child laborers

An organization of workers formed to improve working conditions is called what?

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

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

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• anthropology
• philanthropy

Because of the rapid growth of Industrialization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?

• Rural farms
• Urbanized cities
• Suburbs
• They didn't move

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of child laborers.

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Ida Wells
• Lewis Hine

A group of companies agreeing to fix prices in an industry is called . . .

• monopoly
• corporation
• trust
• horizontal Integration