Monopolies Quiz

When a company has complete control of an entire market it is known as a

• reconstruction

• muckraker

• monopoly

• unicameral

What President of the United States was known as The Trustbuster

• Abraham Lincoln

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Eleanor Roosevelt

Why did consumers not like monopolies?

• They led to higher prices

• They led to lower, more affordable prices.

• They helped create good jobs

This law was created to keep trusts from ending competition

• Standard Oil

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• 15th Amendment

• Monroe Doctrine

The product that made Andrew Carnegie rich

• oil

• libraries

• railroads

• steel

The term used to describe leaders of companies who did great things for the community

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

The journalist who wrote about the horrible lynchings taking place in the south

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida B. Wells

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida Whitlinger

A department store is a store that sells many different types of things under one roof

• True

• False

People from the north who went to the south to help freed slaves were called this by Southerners who resented them

• scalawags

• sharecroppers

• freedmen

• carpetbaggers