2.2 Era of Big Business

Which Robber Baron of the Gilded Age became rich through his control of the banking industry and eventually created the company called U.S. Steel?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbelt

What group do the large men at the back of the room represent?

• Foreign leaders of world powers

• The average American citizen

• Very powerful senators

• Wealthy captains of industry/robber barons

Who created the Standard Oil corporation?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbelt

Vast industrialization and corporate monopolies reduced which of the following during the Gilded Age?

• Corruption in politics

• Poverty in the working class

• Competition amongst firms

• Monopolies in industry

Which of the following was discouraged by the theory of Social Darwinism?

• Hard work

• The accumulation of wealth

• Industrialization

• Government regulation