Quiz #9 Gilded Age and Big Business

Match the following

• Leader of an industry

• Captains of Industry

• Allowed Congress to regulate commerce or trade on railroads

• Collective Bargaining System

• Practice of employees negotiating as a united group instead of individuals

• Robber Barons

• Concerned with making profits

• Interstate Commerce Act

• practice of renting convicts as workers and virtual slaves that became common in late 1800s

• Convict Lease System

Match the following

• helping others, usually by donating large sums of money

• Philanthropy

• individual or small group that earned enough votes to control the government by rewarding supporters

• Social Darwinism

• survival of the fittest

• Political Machine

• Hands off government

• Laissez-faire

• federal legislature outlawing forming trusts to create monopolies and retrain trade

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (189)

Match the following

• shareholders own all or part of companies they control as trustees

• New Immigrants

• company owning all the other companies that make products and services it needs

• Vertical Integration

• fear of and opposition to immigration

• Trust

• buying the competition

• Horizontal Integration

• Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Nativism

Which of the following is the BEST definition of the Convict Lease System?

• State governments rented out prisoners to private companies

• Federal prisons paid felons to build infrastructure projects

• State government leaders leased out prison property to private companies

• Convicted murderers were sent to uninhabited islands along the Atlantic Coast

Which of the following are MOST associated with Andrew Carnegie?

• Captain of Industry

• Promoted "Gospel of Wealth"

• First oil industry monopoly

• Supported collective bargaining

• Used vertical integration to cut costs

Which of the following methods would be used by a union leader to achieve better working conditions?

• Child labor

• Collective bargaining

• Lockouts

• Laissez-faire economics

Which of the following was a political by product created as new immigrants arrived to Ellis Island, New York?

• Nativist groups, such as the KKK, infused hostility within the Democratic Party

• Immigrants were welcomed by political machines in return for their votes

• Theodore Roosevelt was easily elected President due to his support of muckrakers

• Nativism strongly impacted pro-immigration policies

Which term BEST describes the United States government's policies towards Big Business during the Gilded Age?

• Regulatory

• Mercantilist

• Laissez Faire

• Progressive