APUSH Gilded Age Quiz #1

Which one of these men was not a robber baron with a monopoly and ruthless business tactics?

• Andrew Carnegie
• JP Morgan
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

Which is not a characteristic of a business monopoly?

• Control all of a product's production
• business competition
• rise prices
• put all competition out of business

Type of business that controls all of a market?

• corporation
• business
• monopoly
• pool

Which term describes the policy where the government stays out of the economy? 

• Laissez-Faire
• Social Darwinism
• Credit Mobilier
• Free Soil

Which term describes a person who donates a lot of money to good causes?

• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Vanderbilt
• Conglomerate

Philanthropic giving was encouraged by Carnegie through his essay titled

• "Rags to Riches"

• "Captains of Industry"

• "Gospel of Social Wealth"

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

What institution most expanded during the Gilded Age?

• big business
• the military
• the credit industry
• rural life

Movement during the Gilded Age of people from the country to the city?

• urbanization
• industrialization
• assimilation
• Americanization

Which tycoon made steel into one of the nation´s biggest industries?

• Andrew Carnegie
• John Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• JP Morgan