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WorksheetsThe Industrial Age
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Created a monopoly in the oil industry with the Standard Oil Company
Standard Gauge
Rockefeller
Sweatshops
Edison
Total control of an industry by one person or one company
Carnegie
Monopoly
Stockholder
Bell
What did the "Gilded Age" refer to?
A time of great poverty in America in the mid 1920s.
A time of great wealth in the late 1800s and early 1900s that sometimes masked problems of corruption and poverty in America.
A period of time when most products were purchased using precious metals such as gold.
A time of social injustice in America when the poor fought back against the rich,
How did monopolies hurt businesses and consumers?
They created too much competition, so no one corporation ever made a profit.
They did not hurt businesses and consumers, but helped them to purchase goods at a lower cost.
There was little competition so corporations were under no pressure to improve their products or services and they can charge higher prices.
Corporations became too powerful because they cooperated with competitors.
People who start businesses are
Corporations
Philanthropists
Entrepreneurs
Barons
Competitive businessmen who sometimes used unethical business practices were:
Entrepreneurs
Trust busters
Robber Barons
Philanthropists
A person who uses their wealth and money to benefit the community is a:
Monopoly
Robber Baron
Philanthropist
Entrepreneur
What strike became bloody in Chicago's Haymarket Square?
The Triangle Shirtwaist Strike
The McCormick Harvester Company strike
The Samuel Gompers Strike
The Standard Oil Strike
Plant managers cut workers' pay which caused the workers to strike in
Homestead, PA
New York, NY
Los Angeles, CA
Akron, OH
When violence broke out during strikes, membership in unions
decreased
increased
stayed the same
unions broke apart
Who was the president of the American Federation of Labor?
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
John D. Rockerfeller
Steven Wilson
