History Quiz

The person who experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph was ________.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Christopher Sholes

The person who was first to patent the telephone was ________.

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

• John D. Rockefeller

A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation is called a ________.

• Trust

• Labor Union

• Philanthropist

• Capitalism

The person who led America’s oil industry was ________.

• Christopher Sholes

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Thomas Edison

The person who was America’s most important manufacturer of steel was ________.

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

• Christopher Sholes

A business that is owned by many people is called a ________.

• Trust

• Corporation

• Labor Union

• Philanthropist

The evolutionist Herbert Spencer promoted the idea that only the fittest survive in society. True or False?

• True

• False

During the Gilded Age American cities grew because people from rural areas moved to the cities. True or False?

• True

• False

Many cities had tenement housing for its poor immigrants. True or False?

• True

• False

Who worked at Princeton and wrote articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at its word?

• D.L. Moody

• B.B. Warfield

• Ira Sankey

• Charles Spurgeon