APUSH AMSCO CH 16

The national government helped finance the building of the transcontinental railroad with

• land grants
• direct grants of cash
• loans from the Bank of the United States
• access to gold deposits

Which of the following is NOT a correct match?

• Bessemer - Railroads
• Rockefeller - Oil
• Carnegie - Steel
• Morgan - Banking

A business organization that basically creates a monopoly on the market was known as a 

• trust
• conglomerate
• corporation
• amalgomation

Which of the following are accurate when thinking about the monopolies or trusts in the oil and steel industry during the "Gilded Age":

• Carnegie used vertical integration, Rockefeller used horizontal integration

• Carnegie used horizontal integration, Rockefeller used vertical integration

• both Carnegie and Rockefeller used horizontal integration

• both Carnegie and Rockefeller used vertical integration

The expansion of the Railroads during the "Gilded Age" had all the following effects EXCEPT:

• development of time zones

• development of the corporation

• expanded and more unified national economy

• discount rates for farmers to ship their products

The "Captain of the Railroad Industry" was:

• J. P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Gus Swift

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

The most significant rivalry between the "Captains of Industry" occurred between which of the following:

• J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie

• Andrew Carnegie and John Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt and Gus Swift

• Katy Perry and Taylor Swift

The "Captain of the Oil Industry" during "The Gilded Age" was:

• Andrew Carnegie

• John Rockefeller

• Gus Swift

• Johnny Phillips 66

J. P. Morgan became one of the wealthiest people in the U S during "The Gilded Age." Morgan's wealth was largely made in:

• banking and investments

• oil

• gold

• stock market

The U. S. government made attempts to regulate monopolies and trusts during the "Gilded Age." Which of the following statements most accurately describes the results of those regulations:

• anti-trust regulation was strictly enforced and monopolies were broken up

• government regulation was only successful with a few monopolies or trusts but the big corporations were not effected

• most of the efforts to regulate trust or monopolies were vaguely worded and thus ineffective, additionally Supreme Court decisions limited the effectiveness of Federal government regulation

• government regulation put an end to vertical integration but left horizontal integration untouched