Industrialization and Big Business

This person invented the telephone and revolutionized communication.

• Guglielmo Marconi
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Steve Jobs
• Thomas Edison

This process converted iron to steel and allowed for taller buildings, longer bridges, and heavier machinery.

• Carnegie Process
• Ironing Process
• Bessemer Process
• Bell Process

This person invented the phonograph, audio recorder, battery, and electric lightbulb.

• Thomas Edison
• Nicolai Tesla
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Andrew Carnegie

This man was controlled the railroad industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D Rockefelelr
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• JP Morgan

This man controlled the steel industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• John D Rockefeller
• JP Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

This man owned Standard Oil and controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age

• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John D Rockefeller
• JP Morgan

This is another word for monopoly

• Trust
• Corporation
• Merger
• Subsidiary

The rise of big business meant most people worked at _____.

• farms

• plantations

• factories

• churches

Which statement best describes the United States economic history during the period 1865-1900?

• Industrialization increased at a rapid rate.

• Factories imported most of their raw materials.

• The lack of immigration tended to decrease industrial production.

• American industrial technology was hindered by the Civil War.

What is a trust?

• Shares in the business

• Money

• Group of corporations runs by a single board of directors

• Business that are owned by shareholders or investors