Industrialization & Gilded Age

John D. Rockefeller was a

businessman who controlled what monopoly?

• Oil

• Steel

• Electricity

Andrew Carnegie was a businessman

who controlled what monopoly?

• Oil

• Steel

• Electricity

How did big businessman treat their

workers?

• Very well

• Very poorly

• With a lot of respect

Who invented the light bulb?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Edison

• Albert Einstein

In the late 1800’s who controlled

the country?

• The President

• Big Buisness Owners

• Workers

A time of great wealth for owners but poor conditions for the worker was known as what?

• The Gilded Age

• Reconstruction

• The Roaring 20's

A time in American history where factories and cities began to grow from new inventions.

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Civil War

• The American Revolution

What was one reason John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. Pierpont Morgan were sometimes called robber barons?

• They made unnecessarily risky investments.
• They stole money from the federal government.
• They robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
• They used ruthless business tactics against their competitors.

The total or complete control of a service, product or industry that prevents competition

• Union
• Robber Barron
• Monopoly
• Captain of Industry

Government should keep "Hands Off" the economy

• Laissez Faire
• Market Economy
• Capitalism
• Social Darwinism