Gilded Age Test Review

Leader of the American Railway Union during the Pullman Strike 1894. Tried to help his fellow striking workers by refusing to allow the railroads to pull Pullman passenger cars.

• Eugene V. Debs

• Terence V. Powderly

• Samuel Gompers

• Mother Jones

Founder of a major steel company. He eventually became the 2nd richest man in US History.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

One of the most powerful bankers during the Gilded Age. He financed railroads, US Steel, and General Electric.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

Founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). He was a former cigar maker who wanted to create a union based upon skilled workers.

• Terence V. Powerderly

• Mother Jones

• Samuel Gompers

• Eugene V. Debs

Wrote books that reinforced the ideas of Social Darwinism—“work hard and you’ll get rich”. His stories were basically all the same—“poor kid works hard and gets rich”.

• Karl Marx

• Mark Twain

• Horatio Alger

Man who is credited with creating the economic theory of socialism. He wrote the book The Communist Manifesto.

• Karl Marx

• Mark Twain

• Horatio Alger

Invented the telephone and the company AT&T

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Jim Fisk and Jay Gould

• Rutherford B. Hayes

Famous author who wrote the book The Gilded Age—a satire of American life in the 1870s and 1880s.

• Karl Marx

• Mark Twain

• Horatio Alger

Robber Baron who owned over 4500 miles of RR track on the East Coast in 1877. He was worth a fortune of $100 million. He also liked building fancy mansions.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

Founder of the Knights of Labor. He ALL workers to join his union. He pushed for equal pay for equal work and an 8 hour work day. He did NOT want the KofL to go on strike.

• Eugene V. Debs

• Terence V. Powderly

• Mother Jones

• Samuel Gompers