Gilded Age

The picture shows which negative effect of industrialization?

• High wages were earned
• Short working hours
• Safe working conditions
• Child labor was used

J.P. Morgan was a captain of which industry?

• Railroads
• Steel
• Banking
• Oil

What does philanthropy mean?

• generously donating money to good causes

• future generations; your kid's kids

• being wealthy and leaving all of your money to 1 son

• a place where different nationalities and religions are mixed together

What is this a picture of?

• tenements

• melting pot

• skyscrapers

• plantations

Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

• JP Morgan

A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices such as Vanderbilt and Carnegie was called a ?

• Robber Baron

• Slum Lord

• Proprietor

• Land Lord

Which word means a complete ownership or control of the entire supply of goods or a service in a certain market?

• monopoly

• industry

• colony

• philanthropy

Click on all of the new innovations and inventions being used during The Gilded Age.

• telephones and electric lighting

• automobiles

• horse and buggy

• motion pictures (movies)

• Bessemer steel

A Scottish immigrant who led the enormous expansion of the steel industry.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What is something people who belong to a Union might do?

• go on strike

• call on immigrants to take your job

• blacklist you

• fight for an 8 hour work day

• fight for better wages and working conditions