The Gilded Age - Industrialization

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

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

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

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

The Bessemer Process was a more efficient way to make this product, plus it made it stronger.

• steel
• automobiles
• gasoline
• cloth

He created the company known as Standard Oil

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

The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market

• boats

• railroads

• autombils

• horse drawn carriages

Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry?

• Electrification
• Vulcanization
• Steam power
• Bessemer Process

What is Laissez-Faire policy?

• A policy in which the U.S. government controls the economy

• An policy in which the U.S. government partially controls the economy

• A policy where the U.S. government does not regulate the economy

• A policy where another country controls the U.S. economy

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

• Interstate Commerece Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontiental Act
• Laizzez Faire Act 

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

• Upton Sinclair

• Andrew Carnegie

• Mark Twian

• Henry George