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The Industrial Age

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Created a monopoly in the oil industry with the Standard Oil Company

a)

Standard Gauge

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Sweatshops

d)

Edison

2.
Dominated the steel in the steel industry in the 1890s
a)
Carnegie
b)
Monopoly
c)
Stockholder
d)
Bell
3.

Total control of an industry by one person or one company

a)

Carnegie

b)

Monopoly

c)

Stockholder

d)

Bell

4.

What did the "Gilded Age" refer to?

a)

A time of great poverty in America in the mid 1920s.

b)

A time of great wealth in the late 1800s and early 1900s that sometimes masked problems of corruption and poverty in America.

c)

A period of time when most products were purchased using precious metals such as gold.

d)

A time of social injustice in America when the poor fought back against the rich,

5.

How did monopolies hurt businesses and consumers?

a)

They created too much competition, so no one corporation ever made a profit.

b)

They did not hurt businesses and consumers, but helped them to purchase goods at a lower cost.

c)

There was little competition so corporations were under no pressure to improve their products or services and they can charge higher prices.

d)

Corporations became too powerful because they cooperated with competitors.

6.

People who start businesses are

a)

Corporations

b)

Philanthropists

c)

Entrepreneurs

d)

Barons

7.

Competitive businessmen who sometimes used unethical business practices were:

a)

Entrepreneurs

b)

Trust busters

c)

Robber Barons

d)

Philanthropists

8.

A person who uses their wealth and money to benefit the community is a:

a)

Monopoly

b)

Robber Baron

c)

Philanthropist

d)

Entrepreneur

9.

What strike became bloody in Chicago's Haymarket Square?

a)

The Triangle Shirtwaist Strike

b)

The McCormick Harvester Company strike

c)

The Samuel Gompers Strike

d)

The Standard Oil Strike

10.

Plant managers cut workers' pay which caused the workers to strike in

a)

Homestead, PA

b)

New York, NY

c)

Los Angeles, CA

d)

Akron, OH

11.

When violence broke out during strikes, membership in unions

a)

decreased

b)

increased

c)

stayed the same

d)

unions broke apart

12.

Who was the president of the American Federation of Labor?

a)

Andrew Carnegie

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

John D. Rockerfeller

d)

Steven Wilson