Gilded Age: P2 (Readings)

What is the term that describes the electrical powered technologies, petroleum energy, and the first industrial laboratories?

• Second Industrial Revolution

• The Last Frontier

• Railroad Era

• Civil War

What do others call it as they refer to the continental network of railroads that could move the products of the new large-scale industries?

• Second Industrial Revolution

• The Last Frontier

• Railroad Era

• Civil War

What is the term that describes the settlement of lands between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, and the end of the Indian Wars?

• Second Industrial Revolution

• The Last Frontier

• Railroad Era

• Civil War

This era has been characterize in multiple ways, which one has been the most enduring and of which was coined by Mark Twain?

• Second Industrial Revolution

• The Last Frontier

• Railroad Era

• Gilded Era

What is the term that describes a time in which the captains of industry controlled large corporations, created great fortunes, and dominated politics, while the problems of farmlands and growing cities festered under the surface?

• Second Industrial Revolution

• The Last Frontier

• Railroad Era

• Gilded Era

Between 1865-1900, how fast was the U.S. economy growing?

• 1%

• 2%

• 3%

• 4%

Identify our countries' raw materials that was essential to industrialization:

• coal (steam engines)

• iron ore (steel)

• copper (electrical & heating conductor)

• oil (petroleum & kerosene)

• solar (electrical energy)

From 1865 to 1900, an abundant labor supply was available as a result of what?

• high birth rate

• low birth rate

• high immigration

• low immigration

What type of advanced network made the U.S. the largest market in the world for industrial goods?

• transportation

• raw materials

• communications

• energy

How did business benefited from a friendly (favorable) government policies?

• rules that protected private property

• subsidized railroads with land grants and loans

• supported U.S. manufacturers with protective tariffs

• development of labor-saving technologies