Unit 2 Gilded Age Review

Another word for Monopoly is _________

• Trust

• Monopoly

• Monopoly

• Monopoly

Why is the United states moving from a rural society to an urban society?

• People like noise

• People enjoyed the theater and arts

• Growth of Manufacturing Business

• Growth of Farming in urban areas

What are the characteristics of the Gilded Age?

• Sod homes, railroads, farming

• telephone, telegram, light bulb

• Islands, States, Pacific Ocean

• Industrialist, corrupt government, political power

How did the telegraph and telephone help the economic expansion in America?

• Americans can block calls

• Speed in communications

• Steel industry gained control

• Monopolies controlled all telecommunications

What is Industrialism?

• increase in factories, laissez-faire, immigration

• farming, sod homes, Irish families

• money, cell phones, car factories

• farmers markets

What contributed to the steel industry?

• Rockefeller taking control over steel

• Farmers moving to cities and working in steel mills

• Bessemer process- new techniques

• Gold Rush in California

How did light bulbs affect industry?

• less working hours

• people refused to buy them, used candles instead

• encouraged immigration

• extended working hours/ efficiency

How did American standard of living increase?

• moving out west

• technology

• focusing on farming techniques

• forced immigrants to clean up their own mess.

During the Gilded Age, there was an increase in federal support for ...

• Creating technological schools

• Fighting Crime and Disease

• Big Business

• Americanization of Nativists

Why do Big Businesses hate competition?

• Reduces Profits

• Increases Profits

• Decreases Strikers

• Expands farming in the west