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Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

• JP Morgan

Click on all of the new innovations and inventions being used during The Gilded Age.

• telephones and electric lighting

• automobiles

• horse and buggy

• motion pictures (movies)

• Bessemer steel

A Scottish immigrant who led the enormous expansion of the steel industry.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Which one of these men was NOT a robber baron with a monopoly and unethical business practices?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

• J.P. Morgan

The Bessemer Process made it cheaper and easier to make what material?

• Paper

• Oil

• Gold

• Steel

JP Morgan was known for

• Insurance

• Child Labor

• Sweatshops

• Banking

Which of the following inventions is NOT associated with Thomas Edison

• Telephone

• Phonograph

• Battery

• Light Bulb

Which major Gilded Age industry stimulated the others?

• Railroads

• Oil

• Steel

• Electricity

Which of the following technologies developed as a result of the growth of cities during the Gilded Age (select all that apply)?

• Skyscrapers

• Airplanes

• Subways

• Trolley Lines

Trusts and holding companies were started because of what type of government policy toward business?

• laissez-faire, low regulation policy

• laissez-faire, strict regulation policy

• abolitionist policy

• Jim Crow policy