WorksheetsGilded Age Vocabulary
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A political organization that controls elections, by awarding jobs and other favors in exchange for votes.
a)
Political Machine
b)
Social Gospel
c)
Laissez-Faire
d)
Industrialization
2.
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts; a "robber baron," developed the steel industry; practiced vertical integration; believed in the "Gospel of Wealth."
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
Andrew Carneige
c)
J.P. Morgan
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
3.
Practice where a single company controls every step of the process, from the raw materials to distribution.
a)
Vertical Integration
b)
Horizontal integration
c)
Laissez-Faire
d)
Agrarian
4.
An influential banker and businessman who bought and reorganized companies. His US Steel company would buy Carnegie steel and become the largest business in the world in 1901.
a)
John D. Rockefeller
b)
J. P. Morgan
c)
Alexander Graham Bell
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
5.
A movement in the late 1800s & the early 1900s which emphasized charity and social responsibility as a means of salvation.
a)
Social Gospel
b)
Philanthrophy
c)
Industrialization
d)
Urbanization
6.
When a country changes itself from a agricultural society into one based on factories/machines.
a)
Urbanization
b)
Industrialization
c)
Agrarian
d)
Assimilation
7.
Invented the telephone.
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Aaron Montgomery Ward
d)
John D. Rockefeller
8.
Author of "How the Other Half Lives"
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Ida B. Wells
d)
Lincoln Steffens
9.
Type of monopoly where a company controls a majority of one step in the production process.
a)
Horizontal Integration
b)
Vertical Integration
c)
Laissez-Faire
d)
Trusts
10.
An American capitalist who acquired a fortune in the late nineteenth century by ruthless means.
a)
Robber Barons
b)
Political Boss
c)
Philanthrophy
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
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