Westward Expansion and The Gilded Age Vocabulary Quiz 2

Increased the amount and quality of steel produced.

• Steel Purification Process

• Bessemer Process

• Mass Production

• Laissez-Faire Process

Free-Enterprise System

• The government regulates who may buy which products and how many

• The organized distribution of free rental cars

• Freedom to obey corporations in terms of what to buy, where to work, and what to make

• Freedom to make their own choices in what to buy, where to work, and what to make

Made his fortune in steel mills, crushed workers' attempts to unionize and kept wages low.

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Jacob Riis

• Boss Tween

Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in railroads and shipping eventually monopolizing shipping in America.

• True

• False

JP Morgan

• Journalist who exposed the impoverished conditions of slums in New York City

• Wealthy banker and financier who created unfair monopolies

• Established the first and most powerful labor union

• Harnessed to power of electricity to invent the light bulb

Thomas Edison is a famous inventor best known for inventing the telephone.

• True

• False

In a National Market system, businesses and farms are only able sell their products locally.

• True

• False

The idea that the wealthy are obligated to give away vast sums of money to support the common good is called philanthropy.

• True

• False

A businessman who used ruthless tactics to destroy competition and keep workers' wages low.

• Political Boss

• Robber Baron

• Nativist

• Americanizer

The Gilded Age refers to a time in America when the country was ruled by ruthless businessmen who stopped at nothing to gather wealth and power.

• True

• False