Gilded Age Vocab Quiz

What is the nickname given to wealthy industrialists who exploited workers and were corrupt?

• Gilded Age

• Monopoly

• Robber Baron

• Corporation

What is the process of combining small companies into large corporations called?

• Monopoly

• Consolidation

• Corporation

• Trusts

What is the movement of people from one nation to another for better opportunities?

• Urbanization

• Immigration

• Population Density

• Labor Union

What term refers to poor urban neighborhoods?

• Slums

• Tenements

• Infrastructure

• Nativists

Who was known as the Oil Tycoon and owner of Standard Oil Company?

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

Who created the first mass-produced automobile using the assembly line?

• Henry Ford

• George Pullman

• Thomas Edison

• Wright Brothers

Who was a Scottish immigrant who mass-produced steel using the Bessemer Process?

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

• John Rockefeller

• Henry Ford

Who invented the sleeping railroad car?

• George Pullman

• Henry Ford

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

Who were the inventors of the first mechanized powered aircraft?

• Wright Brothers

• Thomas Edison

• J.P. Morgan

• Alexander Graham Bell

Who manufactured railroad cars like the sleeping car?

• Henry Ford

• George Pullman

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Andrew Carnegie