Industrialization in the Gilded Age

The Gilded Age is the period between?

• The Revolutionary War and the Civil War

• The Mexican-American War and the Civil War

• The Civil War and World War I

• World War I and World War II

What is the Bessemer Process?

• A process developed to standardized how oil is refined

• A process used for connecting railroads

• A process used for mass producing steel

• A process that unions used to determine if they would go on strike

Definition: Government should interfere as little as possible with business

Which of the following terms matches the definition above?

• Urbanization

• Laissez-Faire

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

Owns the iron mines

Owns the coal mines

Owns the railroad to transport the materials

Owns the ships to transport the materials

The list above represents which term?

• Urbanization

• Laissez-Faire

• Vertical Integration

• Horizontal Integration

What is an accurate “Pull Factor” for immigrants during this era?

• Lower wages

• Limitations on social class movement

• Political tyranny and instability

• Availability of land ownership

“It has been a monstrous curse of the world, of all ages, to degrade ________ to the level of a commodity, a material, a chattel, to be bought and sold” - Eugene Debs, 1889

What term fits in the blank space?

• Industrialists

• Labor

• Immigrants

• Freedmen

“The bright and able contribute most to society, and so are to be encouraged and rewarded. The poor, the weak, and the handicapped demand more than they contribute, and so should not be supported but rather allowed a natural death.” Cavanagh, American Business Values in Transition, p, 11.

What term applies to the quote above?

• Union

• Captain of Industry

• Social Darwinism

• Sherman Antitrust Act

“Modern industry evolves these organizations out of the existing conditions where there are two classes in society, one incessantly striving to obtain the labor of the other class for as little as possible, and to obtain the largest amount or number of hours of labor; and the members of the other class, being as individuals utterly helpless in a contest with their employers, naturally resort to combinations to improve their condition, and, in fact, they are forced by the conditions which surround them to organize for self-protection”

• A governor who is who is called to break a strike

• An industrialist who is captain of industry

• An industrialist who is a robber baron

• A union organizer who wants better working conditions and higher wages

How did the Homestead strike end?

• Management and those on strike negotiated a 10% pay cut

• Andrew Carnegie agreed to build a new library in Pennsylvania

• Management met the workers’ demands of no pay cut

• The governor of Pennsylvania sent troops to end the strike

“Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal.”

The above quote is from which source?

• A union contract

• The Sherman Antitrust Act

• A newspaper report on a strike

• Andrew Carnegie’s speech on Social Darwinism