U.S. History Exit Ticket 14: Industrialization

Identify THREE​ significant characteristics of the Gilded Age.

1: ​ (a)   ​

2: ​ (b)  

3: ​ (c)  

• growth of "big business" trusts
• rapid westward expansion
• revival of classical art and music
• steady decline of industrial manufacturing
• expansion of national parks
• growth of the railroad industry

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TEKS [2.A] [3.B]

The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.

• Entrepreneurs

• Nativists

• Philanthropists

• Populists

What innovation contributed to the rapid industrialization (growth of factories) of the United States?

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• anthropolgy
• philanthropy

When a company or business has complete control over the supply of a product or service it is said to have a ___________________.

• control

• union

• Monopoly

What is the name of the theory that a government should not interfere in the economy?

• Laissez Faire

• hands free

• overreaching economics