Captains of Industry & Robber Barons

This was a less expensive and easier way to make steel. It increased production and lowered the price of steel in the US dramatically.

• Industrial Revolution

• Bessemer Process

• Pipeline

• Horizontal Integration

____________ is a negative term to describe the industrial tycoons of the Gilded Age and __________ is a positive term to describe them.

• Robber Barons; Captains of Industry

• Captains of Industry; Robber Barons

Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in...

• flight.

• oil.

• railroads.

• steel.

This monopoly system means the company owns every step in production.

• Horizontal Integration

• Vertical Integration

• Lassiez faire

• Corporation

Andrew Carnegie's idea that the wealthy had a moral obligation to improve society for everyone.

• Gospel of Wealth

• Social Darwinism

• American Dream

• Principles of Scientific Management

Pools, trusts, and monopolies were an effort to reduce what?

• Profits

• Unionization

• Child labor

• Competition

I partnered with Andrew Carnegie, using violent coercion to increase the profits of his steel mills.

I was also a founding member of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, whose construction undermined the integrity of a reservoir that caused the Johnstown Flood.

(a)  

This Muckraker's work chronicled the controversial history of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.

• John Spargo

• Ida Tarbell

• William Hard

• Upton Sinclair

It is believed that John D. Rockefeller once said, "The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well."

Which of the following are examples that such advice proved true for him?

• Oil pipelines

• Standard Oil's advertising campaigns

• The Bessemer process

• His book The Bitter Cry of Children

“The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfect happiness... exterminate such sections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness that they exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants.”

What emerging concept/ideology of the era does this quote reflect?

(a)