Quiz on the Progressive Era and Industrialization

What era spanned from roughly the 1880s through the 1920s, focusing on improving and reforming society?

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Progressive Era

• The Renaissance

• The Enlightenment

Who nicknamed the era of societal improvement and mass industrialization the "Gilded Age"?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Mark Twain

• Samuel Gompers

What significant invention did Thomas Edison create in 1877?

• The telephone

• The phonograph

• The light bulb

• The steam engine

Which railroad was completed in Promontory Point, UT, in 1869?

• The Central Pacific Railroad

• The Union Pacific Railroad

• The Transcontinental Railroad

• The Pullman Railroad

Who founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1886?

• Eugene Debs

• Samuel Gompers

• George Pullman

• Edwin Drake

What was the main goal of the National Labor Union formed in 1866?

• To promote industrialization

• To support higher wages and better working conditions

• To invent new technologies

• To support the Transcontinental Railroad

Which strike affected the Carnegie Steel Company in 1892?

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Great Railroad Strike

• Haymarket Riot

Who ran for President several times but failed in 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, and 1920?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Eugene Debs

• Samuel Gompers

What term is used to describe a company with exclusive control over the supply, trade, or price of a resource?

• Oligopoly

• Monopoly

• Cartel

• Syndicate

Who was a Scottish immigrant that turned Pittsburgh, PA into a steel manufacturing center?

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt