Industrialization and the Gilded Age

A person who organizes and assumes risk of buisness.

• corporation

• entrepreneur

• robber baron

• industrialist

Early leader of the oil industry who formed the Standard Oil Company.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

A company whose only function was to own stock in other corporations.

• holding company

• corporation

• entrepreneur

• trustees

What can you infer about Standard Oil from the cartoon?

• It is powerful enough to destroy its competition

• It controls off shore drilling

• It will monopolize off shore oil shipping

• It has no competition

The successful railroad consolidator.

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Which of the following is NOT an impact of Industrialization?

• Urbanization

• Strikes

• Tenements

• Imperialism

Belief that Americans are inherently better and deserve the jobs being taken by immigrants, therefore immigrants need to be restricted.

• Lassiez-Faire

• Social Darwinism

• Nativism

• Patronage

Who is known as the Commodore?

• John D. Rockefeller

• James Fisk

• William Gould

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

A business organization formed when several companies gave control of their operations to a board of trustees.

• trust

• holding company

• coporation

• rebate

The huge business combinations to limit competition were formed largely through...

• the investments of small businesses

• mass production methods

• holding companies and trusts

• a decrease in monopolies