The Gilded Age

The term _________ means something is covered gold but is rotten at its core.

The Gilded Age saw massive gains in wealth for the rich but widespread inequality for the working class.

• True

• False

Which of the following allowed America to become an industrial giant by the 20th Century? (Click all that apply)

• Large amounts of natural resources

• Excess of capital

• A lack of immigration

• New inventions

By the 1870s crude oil was being refined for to produce ____________________.

• petroleum

• kerosine

• plastics

• diesel fuel

Which of the following was a tactic of John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil? (click all that apply)

• Spying on competitors

• Price Wars

• Horizontal Integration

• Political favors

In 1887 large amounts of iron ore were discovered along the ____________ Range in northern Minnesota.

Who brought the bessemer process to America and controlled over 60% of the world's steel production by the 1880s?

• J.P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Industrialists often used replacement workers and even violence to break up unions that went on strike.

• True

• False