Gilded Age Review

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• Telephone

• Light bulb

• Moving assembly line

• Uses for peanuts

What did Thomas Edison invent?

• Uses for peanuts

• Telephone

• Light bulb

• Moving assembly line

What did Henry Ford invent?

• Moving assembly line

• Uses for peanuts

• Light bulb

• Telephone

How did Cornelius Vanderbilt build his wealth?

• Automobile Industry

• Railroad and Shipping Industry

• Oil Industry

• Steel Industry

What is Andrew Carnegie known for?

• Oil Company

• Steel Company

• Automobile Company

• Railroad Company

What company did John D. Rockefeller start that made him an industrial capitalist?

• Premium Oil

• Rockefeller Oil

• American Oil

• Standard Oil

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

Cheap apartment buildings often crammed with people are called what?

• suburbs

• Tenements

• graft

• Huddle Houses

During the 1800's the port of entry for most immigrants was...?

• New York / Ellis Island

• San Francisco / Angel Island

• Boston / Ellis Island

• Wilmington / Pea Island