Session 6 Quiz

Match the basic definition with the correct term: Fake news; enhanced stories in the press designed to sell more newspapers; Pulitzer and Hearst were the pioneers

• Yellow Journalism

• Muckraking

• Tabloid Reporting

• Investigative Journalism

Match the basic definition with the correct term: Pseudoscience that claimed to tell what a person was like based on appearance (skull shape, nose shape, size of chin)

• Phrenology

• Genetics

• Astrology

• Alchemy

Match the basic definition with the correct term: Popular during the late 1800s when the rich believed that they became rich because they were better than other people

• Social Darwinism

• Manifest Destiny

• Gospel of Wealth

• Laissez-Faire

Match the basic definition with the correct term: Ideas of Frederick Taylor to improve the efficiency of industry; subdivided tasks to make all workers replaceable

• Scientific Management or Taylorism

• Fordism

• Human Relations Theory

• Lean Manufacturing

Match the basic definition with the correct term: Industrialist and banker; he and his banker friends were so influential they controlled finance in the US

• JP Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Match the basic definition with the correct term: Cutthroat businessman and industrialist; owned Standard Oil, one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Who is he?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Who was the partner of Andrew Carnegie, extremely anti-union, and was in charge of the steel mill for the Homestead Strike?

• Henry Clay Frick

• J.P. Morgan

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Which industrialist was a Social Darwinist, philanthropist, got rich in steel, practiced vertical integration, and treated workers poorly?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• J.P. Morgan

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What is the term for a company that would buy stocks in other companies to control them, a practice used by Rockefeller to get around antitrust laws?

• Holding Companies

• Monopolies

• Trust Funds

• Cartels

Who is JD Rockefeller?

• An American industrialist and philanthropist, founder of Standard Oil Company.

• A famous American inventor known for the light bulb.

• A renowned British scientist who discovered penicillin.

• A celebrated French artist from the Impressionist era.