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Industrialization in the Gilded Age

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

An economic practice where the government does NOT try to control the economy.

a)

Gospel of Wealth

b)

laissez faire

c)

Social Darwinism

d)

horizontal integration

2.

The belief that the rich were chosen by god to be rich and should therefore share their wealth.

a)

Gospel of Wealth

b)

laissez faire

c)

capitalism

d)

Social Darwinism

3.

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

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Gospel of Wealth

c)

laissez faire

d)

monopoly

4.

the control of an entire or most of an industry by one company

a)

laissez faire

b)

capitalism

c)

monopoly

d)

patent

5.

When a company controls everything from raw materials to the distribution of the product

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

c)

trust

d)

monopoly

6.

In which industry did Andrew Carnegie earn his fortune?

a)

steel

b)

railroad

c)

gold

d)

oil

7.

Which industry did Rockefeller dominate?

a)

oil

b)

steel

c)

communication

d)

railroad

8.

When a combination of companies control an industry to reduce competition

a)

monopoly

b)

trust

c)

laissez faire

d)

patent

9.

a cause of industrialization

a)

civil war

b)

immigration

c)

natural resources

d)

all of the above

10.

an effect of industrialization

a)

urbanization

b)

growth in economy

c)

political corruption

d)

all of the above

11.

a combination of companies

a)

merger

b)

laissez faire

c)

patent

d)

unions

12.

economy based on profit and private property

a)

capitalism

b)

social darwinism

c)

gospel of wealth

d)

gilded age

13.

the idea that industrialists exploited workers, the environment, and corrupted the gov't

a)

captains of industry

b)

robber barons

c)

horizontal merger

d)

trusts

14.

Vanderbilt, in the railroad industry, practiced

a)

vertical integration

b)

horizontal integration

c)

patent

d)

gospel of wealth

15.

Alexander Bell, in the communications industry, practiced

a)

horizontal integration

b)

vertical integration

c)

trust

d)

urbanization