EOC Review (Gilded Age--Great Depression/New Deal)

The owner of Standard Oil Company:

• J.P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Nickname given to Gilded Age industrialists that used unethical business practices:

• Banksters

• Tycoons

• Fat Cats

• Robber Barons

What is the main idea of this cartoon?

• The Standard Oil Company was a harmful monopoly.
• The best way to support the Standard Oil Company was to form proprietorships.
• Foreign competition with the Standard Oil Company was hurting American companies.
• Government regulations were strangling the Standard Oil Company.

The control of an entire or most of an industry by one company:

• laissez faire

• capitalism

• monopoly

• patent

What were two things workers demanded throughout the mid - late 1800's?

• safer working conditions

• higher wages

• lower hours

• all the above

What was the transcontinental railroad meant to connect?

• Southern United States to the North.

• Eastern United States to the West.

• Canada to the southern United States.

• Canada to Mexico and Central America.

Where were most immigrants on the East Coast processed?

• Washington, D.C.

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island

• Baltimore

What was the goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• Letting Chinese freely migrate to America.

• Prohibiting Chinese migrants from entering the United States for 10 years.

• Prohibiting Europeans from migrating to China.

• Limiting Italian immigration in to China.

To improve their labor conditions, many industrial workers formed _________________.

• Trusts

• Holding companies

• Monopolies

• Unions

What urban problems were a result of overpopulation?

• Housing

• Sanitation

• Water

• All of the above