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US History Chapter 12

Authored by Brian Maurice

History

11th - 12th Grade

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US History Chapter 12
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What do we call people who risk their capital in organizing and running a business?

impresarios
industrialists 
practitioners
entrepreneurs

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following was one of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators during this era?

Grenville Dodge
Theodore Judah 
Edwin Drake
Cornelius Vanderbilt

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When oil was discovered in Pennsylvania, who built oil refineries and eventually founded the Standard Oil company, which was the nation’s largest oil conglomerate?

J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
Henry M. Flagler
J. G. Wentworth 

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What incident occurred in 1886 that badly hurt the Knights of Labor’s reputation?

Great Railroad Strike
formation of the American Federation of Labor
Pullman Strike
Haymarket Riot

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which Civil War-era Congressional legislation reversed years of declining tariffs, by nearly tripling the rates?

the Entrepreneur Tariff
the Morrill Tariff
 the Western Tariff of 1864 
the Consumption Tariff

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Corruption in the railroad industry became public in 1872, when... 

Jay Gould was caught cheating on his contracts.
the Morrill Tariff was enacted.
the Crédit Mobilier scandal erupted.
 the time zones began regulating train schedules.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

First introduced by the Standard Oil Company, a corporate trust is a legal arrangement that...

allows one person to manage another person’s property.
can only be created created by a will and arises after the death of the settlor.
holds no property or financial resources, but rather confidence, faith and expectations.
is an association of individuals in a business enterprise with transferable shares of stock.

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