Industrialization in the Gilded Age

What is industrialization?

• The shift from human and animal power to machine power.

• The process of moving from machine power to animal power.

• The belief that the United States should expand across the North American continent.

• The use of hard working immigrants to mine natural resources.

When did the United States enter a period of rapid industrial growth?

• Before the Revolutionary War.

• After the Revolutionary War.

• After World War 1

• After the Civil War.

What is being implied in this political cartoon?

• Standard Oil will sell their product at competitive rates

• Standard Oil follows the business model of Thomas Hobbes' book Leviathan

• Standard Oil has extended their influence beyond simply producing oil

• Standard Oil will benefit all Americans

The expansion of Industrialism in the United States led to an increase in

• Construction materials

• Immigrants to complete the work.

• Modes of Transportation

• All answers are correct.

Which natural resource, found in the upper Great Lakes region, is vital to the production of cement?

• Limestone

• Oil

• Coal

• Iron ore

Produced from iron ore, which of the following is the strongest material in the list below?

• Bituminous coal

• Steel

• Iron

• Textiles

What are companies who dominate a specific industry (steel, oil, etc.) called?

• Monopolies

• Local Business

• Corporations

• Competitors

What did Union workers do when negotiations with their employers failed?

• They used collective bargaining

• They went on strike

• They gave up and went home

• They set factories on fire

The biggest oil company in the US during the period 1865-1900 was created by

• JP Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

The man responsible for founding the biggest steel corporation in the US during the period 1865-1900 was

• JP Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt