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WorksheetsThe Men Who Built America, Part 1
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 16mins
What is the nickname that Vanderbilt received due to his business dealings in the shipping industry?
Captain
Commodore
Admiral
General
What industry did Vanderbilt invest in after moving on from the shipping industry?
Steamships
Canals
Aqueducts
Railroads
Who did Vanderbilt team with to form a powerful business alliance?
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Morgan
Edison
What did Rockefeller's father do for a living?
He was a circus actor
He was wild-game hunter
He was a traveling storyteller
He was a scam artist
What is the name of Rockefeller's wealthy oil business?
Standard Oil
Petroleum Standard
Natural Gas
Standard kerosene
What did Rockefeller promise to do for Vanderbilt?
Fill up all his trains with shipments of oil.
Stop refining oil in Cleveland and focus on Chicago, instead.
Adapt Vanderbilt’s trains to run on the “wonder fuel” of kerosene.
Support the railroad industry for the next 25 years.
Who wanted to take Vanderbilt's place as “king of the railroads?"
William of Orange
John D. Rockefeller
Tom Scott
Andrew Carnegie
What triggered America’s first full-blown depression?
Vanderbilt's death
Rockefeller going out of business
The Panic of 1873
The stock market crash in October, 1929
Which phrase summarizes Rockefeller’s personal beliefs about business?
“Monetary easing”
“Government interventionism”
“You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold”
“Survival of the fittest”
Andrew Carnegie gained control of a large percentage of the steel company by doing all of the following EXCEPT
Buying out his supporters
Cutting the quality of his products
Buying out his competitors
Underselling his competitors
Refined Oil is also known as which of the following
Gasoline
Kerosene
Valvoline
Petroleum
What is a share of stock
Stocks that you share with your friends
A mathematical formula for entrepreneurial success.
Soup that was shared with the poor
A portion of ownership in a company
What happened to Tom Scott's railroad business in the end?
It became hugely successful in the end
It was burned and destroyed by it's workers
He sold it to Vanderbilt
He lost it in a gambling game.
At what age did Vanderbilt die?
62
72
82
52
In what city did the industrial growth begin?
Chicago
Pittsburgh
New York city
Detroit
Who started their business off using ships?
Carnegie
Ford
Scott
Vanderbilt
What industry allowed our economy to grow?
Cars
Horses
Railroads
Planes
What was oil called?
Black tar
Devils blood
Liquid gold
What made kerosene so unique?
It had a nice smell
It burned clean
It was not highly combustible
It was very expensive
What is a monopoly?
A board game
Complete control and dominance in an industry
A loss of control over one's business
What was the depression?
A period of extreme wealth for the country
A period of extreme hunger
A period of extreme unemployment
A period of great expansion
