Industrialization

What are companies who dominate a specific industry (steel, oil, etc.) called?

• Monopolies

• Local Business

• Corporations

• Competitors

Why did immigrants move to cities?

• They needed a car in rural America

• Housing had a lot of space and was comfortable

• More jobs and lower cost of living

• They wanted to experience discrimination

The sometimes unethical business practices of some industrialists led them to be given this nickname

• Captains of Industry
• Tycoons
• Fat Cats
• Robber Barons

The man responsible for founding the biggest steel corporation in the US during the period 1865-1900 was

• JP Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

The biggest oil company in the US during the period 1865-1900 was created by 

• JP Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• Vertical integration

• Horizontal integration

• Telephone

• Telegraph

What was the name of the process that turned iron into steel?

• Bessemer

• Carnegie

• Rockefeller

• Riis

This mans inventions had to do with electricity.

• Nikola Tesla

• Henry Bessemer

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

Which of the following cities did not have a population of over 1,000,000 by the year 1890?

• Chicago

• Philadelphia

• New York City

• Atlanta

While industralists made lots of money, their workers often didn't, so the period was not as prosperous as it seemed. For this reason it is often called the....

• Great Depression
• Gilded Age
• Golden Age
• Dark Age