Gilded Age: Robber Barons/Captains of Industry

Carnegie, Rockefeller or Morgan: Was an oil tycoon

• Carnegie
• Morgan
• Rockefeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in...

• flight
• oil
• railroads
• automobiles

Banking industry

• Rockefeller
• Morgan
• Carnegie
• All of them

___________ refers to the Gilded Age belief that only the strong should survive and are better than the weak in society.

• Social Darwinism
• Social Evolution
• Social Adaptation

"Gilded Age" was a name for the time that reflected the way the growth of big business caused a

• reduction in crime
• increase in population
• widening gap between the rich and the poor
• narrowing gap between the wealthy and the poor

What institution most expanded during the Gilded Age?

• big business
• the military
• the credit industry
• rural life

What transportation innovation lead to increased Western Expansion?

• the steamship
• the wagon trail
• the airplane
• the Transcontinental Railroad

What did the Homestead Act give settlers?

• money
• gold
• citizenship
• land

Use of barbed wire most associated with which outcome?

• Completion of Union Pacific Railroad
• End of open range and frontier
• Increased prospecting and mining activity
• Increased demand for and production of steel

What is a Laissez-Faire economy?

• An economy that is completely controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that is partially controlled by the U.S. government
• An economy that works best when there is very little involvement by the U.S. government
• An economy that is controlled by another country