Gilded Age + Progressive Age Part 1 Review

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller created monopolies. What is a monopoly?

• When one person or company controls a market

• a board game created by Rockefeller and Carnegie

• a law that gave them advantages in business

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption and inequality

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were know as robber barons because:

• they were like nobility, but they trampled on people to get rich.

• they robbed trains to get rich.

• they made their fortune by working through the night.

The growth of cities is called:

• assimilation

• ruralization

• mechanization

• urbanization

During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in tenements that were:

• crowded, run down, and filthy

• beautiful and new

• spacious

• the most expensive

This invention turned rivers into busy routes for traders and travelers.

• Railroads

• Steamboat

• Telegraph

• Mechanical Reaper

What does this cartoon say about Industrialists?

• The workers are determined to overthrow them.

• They are giving money to the hard-working laborers.

• The ship is slowly crumbling like their empires.

• They are getting rich at the expense of others’ back- breaking work.

The combination of resources, improved transportation, and technological breakthroughs all led to the

• Era of Good Feelings

• Industrial Revolution

• Manifest Destiny

• Adoption of gold standard

18th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition

17th Amendment

• Women's Suffrage

• Direct Election of Senators

• Federal Income Tax

• Prohibition