APUSH Quiz- pages 558-572

A less expensive and easier way to make steel.  It increased production and lowered the price of steel in the US dramatically. Allowed skyscrapers to be built.

• Industrial Revolution
• Bessemer Process
• JP Morgan
• Hull House

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

• Union
• Robber Barron
• Monopoly
• Captain of Industry

Carnegie's  "Gospel of Wealth" encourages the wealthy to

• ignore the plight of the poor
• pay taxes to provide for government services
• donate to charities to improve the community
• end the practice of child labor

These were the men who held very large and extensive corporations within their hands, they even had some control over the governmental processes.

• Robber Barons
• Hobos
• Factory Girls
• Business Owners

____________ is a negative term to describe the great industrialists of the Gilded Age and __________ is a positive term to describe them.

• Robber Barons, Captains of Industry
• Captains of Industry, Robber Barons

Pools, trusts, and monopolies were an effort to reduce 

• profits
• unionization
• child labor
• competition

"Gilded Age" was a name for the time that reflected the way the growth of big business caused a

• reduction in crime
• increase in population
• widening gap between the rich and the poor
• narrowing gap between the wealthy and the poor

He created the company known as Standard Oil

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

By 1870, this entrepreneur empire covered the entire Northeast all the way to Chicago and he became the largest employer in America; who was he?

• J. P. Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Cyrus McCormick
• Alexander Graham Bell

An oil tycoon who made deals with railroads to increase his profits

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Thomas Edison
• John D. Rockefeller