Gilded Age

What are companies who dominate a specific industry (steel, oil, etc.) called?

• Monopolies

• Local Business

• Corporations

• Competitors

What did Union workers do when negotiations with their employers failed?

• They set factories on fire

• They went on strike

• They used collective bargaining

• They gave up and went home

The sometimes unethical business practices of some industrialists led them to be given this nickname

• Captains of Industry
• Tycoons
• Fat Cats
• Robber Barons

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. 

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Andrew Carnegie dominated which industry?

• Oil

• Steel

• Railroad

John Rockefeller dominated which industry?

• Oil

• Steel

• Railroad

a belief that the rich are wealthy because they are strong and the poor are weak

• Social Darwinism

• Gospel of Wealth

• laissez faire

• monopoly

This man made his fortune by owning ships and then railroads

• Rockefeller
• Carnegie
• Morgan
• Vanderbilt

The increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas compared to rural areas.

• Urbanization

• Laissez-Faire

• Railroads

• Cottage Industry

What connected the east coast and west coast of the United States?

• Manifest Destiny

• Transcontinental Railroad

• 19th Amendment

• Erie Canal