Gilded Age (Industrialization)

The ____________ was first completed in 1869. It made it possible to travel to California and created a demand for steel tying the country together for a national market.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Interstate Highway System

• National Market

• Free Enterprise System

A(n) ___________ is a person who starts a business in the hope of making a profit.

• Monopoly

• Philanthropist

• Entrepreneur

• Robber Barron

The period between 1865-1900 is known as the ___________.

• Progressive Era

• Gilded Age

• Great Depression

• Roaring 20s

Having complete control over a supply of a product or service is known as a _________________.

• National Market

• Business

• Entrepreneur

• Monopoly

Prohibited unfair practices by railroads, such as charging higher raters for shorter routes. Considered the first attempt made my Congress to regulate business.

• Anti-Sherman Trust Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

Governments who take a "hands-off" policy towards businesses is known as __________.

• laissez-faire

• imperialism

• democracy

• federalism

The ______________ tried to unite all American workers, both skilled and unskilled, into one national labor union, but was not successful.

• American Federation of Labor

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Knights of Labor

• Anti-Sherman Trust Act

Who is responsible for the creation of the lightbulb. This would then make it possible for employers to extend working days.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

Samuel Gompers was the creator of the _________________. This labor union worked to create a national federation of different craft unions of skilled workers.

• American Federation of Labor (AFL)

• Transport Workers Union of America

• Knights of Labor

• Trade Union

STAAR QUESTION: Which of the following was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains during the late 1800s?

• Congress passed a law requiring all public lands to be sold at auction.

• Congress passed a law allowing people to claim public land and convert it to a practice property through homesteading.

• Speculators brought large parcels of land and then built factory towns to attract new immigrants.

• Native Americans sold most of their tribal lands directly to railroad companies.