Unit 7 The Gilded Age

This man was the founder and owner of Standard Oil.

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

This man created a steel monopoly.

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

Having complete control in the marketplace, without any outside competition.

• Monopoly

• Oligopoly

• Free Enterprise

• Monopolistic Competition

A device for the electrical transmission for coded messages over wires.

• Telegraph

• Phongraph

• Telephone

• Grammaphone

A island in New York harbor that was the chief immigration station in the United States from 1892-1924.

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• Staten Island

• Cumberland Island

An Island in the San Francisco Bay that was an entry point for many Asian immigrants to the United States beginning in 1910.

• Ellis Island

• Cumberland Island

• Staten Island

• Angel Island

An alliance of trade and craft unions (skilled workers) formed in 1886.

• Knight of Labor

• Alliance of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Laborers United

A railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.

• Transcendentalism

• Triangular Trade

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Erie Canal

U.S. law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the west to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years.

• Northwest Ordinance

• Land Ordinance

• Pendelton Act

• Homestead Act

This American Indian let an attack on General Custer and his men at Little Big Horn.

• Sitting Bull

• Pocahontas

• King Philip

• Metacom