Industrialization Unit 2 Review Quizziz

The steel industry was controlled by _____ during the Gilded Age.

• Rockefeller
• Carnegie
• Vanderbilt
• Swift

Standard Oil, the company owned by Rockefeller, was declared a monopoly and broken up into 34 different companies because of the ___________.

• Peabody Anti-Trust Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• Grant Anti-Trust Act

___________ 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

Who was Thomas Edison?

• Created the first electric light bulb in 1870's

• Created the first simple electric motor and first dynamo, Dynamos are still used to produce electricity today

• invented a gasoline-powered internal combustion engine,

• Inherited a steel making business and bought up coal and iron mines. Also, he bought shipping lines that fed his steel business.

What did Madam C. J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold door-to-door and made her the first African American female millionaire?

• Dictionaries
• Nail polish
• Hair care products
• Slime

What did inventor Lewis Latimer accomplish?

• Hydraulics

• A fold-away bed

• Railway telegraph lines

• An improved electric light bulb

What is a monopoly?

• When one company has total control of an industry

• When multiple companies control an industry

• When no companies exist to control an industry

• A board game

Before the passage of the Sherman Antitrust act and the Interstate commerce act, the government practiced a policy of Laissez Faire towards business. What did that cause?

• A huge rise in socialist movements

• Businesses grew with little government oversight

• Increased wages for workers

• Improved working conditions in sweatshops

a large grouping of business interest with a lot of market power (control)

• Trust

• Granger Laws

• Bessemer Process

• Chinese Exclusion Act

What was the goal of the American Federation of Labor, headed by Samuel Gompers?

• Get working class into management positions

• To acquire workers comp

• Trying to improve wages and working conditions only for skilled workers

• Improve pay for women in the workforce