The Gilded Age (Chapter 3): Vocabulary Quiz

The settling of a dispute by a neutral third party is....

• economic disparity

• fraud

• arbitration

• monopoly

An era when railroads, oil, steel, and coal became dominant industries is...

• monopoly

• trust

• labor union

• Gilded Age

The crime of getting money by deceiving people was...

• fraud

• monopoly

• trust

• strike

Unequal distribution of wealth and power among people was called....

• arbitration

• economic disparity

• trust

• strike

An organizational structure that gives control over several businesses to a single board of trustees with the purpose of monopolizing a market is....

• labor union

• arbitration

• fraud

• trust

Exclusive control of a product or service in a particular market is....

• trust

• monopoly

• fraud

• labor union

A refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest is...

• strike

• monopoly

• trust

• economic disparity

A group of workers from the same industry or company is...

• fraud

• arbitration

• labor union

• Gilded Age

The man attributed with discovering the first telephone...

• John D. Rockefeller

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

The first person to find many uses for the peanut including dyes, plastics, etc.

• George Washington Carver

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• John D. Rockefeller