Chapter 13 Test US History

Some people called Carnegie and Rockefeller _______________________________.

• robber barons
• Strike

• Child Labor

• Patents

__________________________ laws were passed to try to protect young workers.

• child labor
• strike

• Patents

• Robber Barons

__________________________ worked in the coal mines pushing carts and sorting coal.

• Breaker Boys
• Robber Barons

• Strike

• Pollution

When union members stop working to demand changes it is called a ________________.

• strike
• pollution

• child labor

• Monopoly

Andrew Carnegie controlled the _______ industry:

• steel

• coal

• water

• oil

Who controlled the oil industry?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Norman Banks

• George Pullman

Which of the following was not a law that the government passed to control big business:

• Railroads had to set prices that were fair to everyone

• Railroads had to make the prices they charged public

• Large companies could control small companies

__________ were the first people to ask for government control over big business.

• Farmers

• Miners

• Cowboys

• Teachers

Which inventor probably invented the most things ever?

• George Pullman

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Elijah McCoy

• Thomas Alva Edison

The main purpose of patents was to:

• To allow an inventor the ability to make money off their ideas

• To make business more money

• To enslave people

• To keep the poor even more poor