Gilded Age

What is given a name by Mark Twain to describe the increase in wealth caused by the industrial age and lifestyles of the very rich?

• Gilded Age

• Robber Barons

• Andrew Carnegie

• Muckrakers

Refers to industrialists who made a lot of money by not paying their employees very well, sold products cheaper than it cost to produce them, and hiked prices high above original price.

• Robber Barons

• Gilded Age

• J.P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

Who built a steel empire; US Steel?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Rockefeller

• J.P.Morgan

Who was a U.S. financier who accumulated great wealth from railroads and shipping business?

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• JP Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• none of the above

Who was a highly successful banker who bought out Carnegie and launched US Steel and made it the first billion dollar corporation?

• none of the above

• Rockefeller

• JP Morgan

• Beard

Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history

• Morgan

• Beard

• Rockefeller

• Carnegie

ways people were entertained during the Gilded Age

• Barnum's Circus

• Wild Bill Show

• None of the above

• Beard

something that became important for men to wear during the Gilded Age

• Beard

• Wild Bill Show

• Barnum's Circus

• none of the above

1906 - Journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business

• philanthropist

• muckrakers

• Ellis Island

• Melting Pot

a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

• Muckraker

• philanthropist

• Bessemer

• Edison