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First Semester exam Gilded Age

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First Semester exam Gilded Age
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which business practice did John D. Rockefeller famously employ to eliminate competition in the oil industry?

Railroad rebates

Vertical integration

Child labor exploitation

Stock market manipulation

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Andrew Carnegie's primary contribution to American industry was in which sector?

Oil refineries

Railroads

Steel Manufacturing

Coal mining

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What philanthropic endeavor is most associated with Andrew Carnegie?

Universities

Public Libraries

Hospitals

Research laboratories

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which controversial business practice did both Carnegie and Rockefeller utilize?

Forming monopolies

Union suppression

Price fixing

Horizontal integration

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The term "Robber Baron" was coined primarily due to these industrialists':

Charitable donations

Treatment of workers

Business innovations

Political connections

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies and processes of raw materials led to

automation of industry
horizontal integration
vertical integration
development of the "putting-out system"

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Name the businessman who bought out Andrew Carnegie and organized the United States Steel Corporation.(LT 6.7)

 JP Morgan

John Rockefeller

Leland Stanford

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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