WorksheetsGilded Age Review Innovators and Robber Barons
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
This wealthy industrialist controlled steel production in the U.S:
John Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
This method of producing steel made production cheaper and more efficient.
Bessemer Process
Assembly Line
Blast Furnace
Vertical Integration
Which two were ways the Railroads aided industrialization?
Provided cheap and efficient shipping.
Improved communication networks.
Was plagued by corruption.
This man struck oil in Ohio in 1859, first to use a steam drill.
Edwin Drake
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
John Gould
When an entire industry is controlled by a single company.
Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration
Monopolization
He invented the light bulb and helped "electrify America."
Alexander Graham Bell
George Westinghouse
Cyrus McCormick
Thomas Edison
Which image is an example of vertical integration?
This industrialist dominated the oil industry in america.
JP Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Term that means the government will not regulate or interfere in industry.
Laissez Faire
Open Door Policy
Regulatory Restraint
Socialism
Because of worker abuse and political corruption wealthy businessmen were often called:
Captains of industry
Visionaries
Robber Barons
Muckrakers
Federal law forbidding monopolies.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Civil Service Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Industrialist who dominated U.S banking, also merged companies to create General Electric.
John Rockefeller
JP Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
Edwin Drake
Theory that applied the concept of natural selection to human society to justify the imbalance of wealth.
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
American Dream
Andrew Carnegie's idea that the wealthy had a moral obligation to improve society for everyone.
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
American Dream
Which image is an example of horizontal integration?
Mark Twain coined this phrase to describe industrial America.
Progressive Era
Imperial America
Era of Good Feelings
Gilded Age
