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Big Business & Unions

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What industrial giant created a steel empire in Pittsburgh

a)

Swift

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Carnegie

d)

Debs

2.

What man created an oil empire in Cleveland?

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Carnegie

c)

J.P. Morgan

d)

Pullman

3.

What term describes the merger of companies in one area of business?

a)

monopoly

b)

corporation

c)

vertical integration

d)

horizontal integration

4.

What is the term for a government's "hands-off" approach to the economy?

a)

socialism

b)

laissez-faire

c)

tariff

d)

philanthropy

5.

Corporate greed resulted in the formation of these, in which a company controls an entire market.

a)

horizontal integration

b)

monopoly

c)

vertical integration

d)

holding company

6.

What term describes the merger of companies so that a single firm controls all aspects of production?

a)

monopoly

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

horizontal integration

d)

vertical integration

7.

The idea that millionaires are a product of natural selection.

a)

Social Darwinism

b)

Philanthropy

c)

Laissez-Faire

d)

Philanthropy

8.

Taking part in actions that benefit society, as practiced by the wealthy, then and now.

a)

Charity

b)

Social Darwinism

c)

Philanthropy

d)

Horizontal Integration

9.

Large railroad strike over unfair conditions in a company town.

a)

Great Railroad Strike of 1877

b)

Haymarket Riot

c)

Homestead

d)

Pullman

10.

Chicago labor rally in which participants were killed in a bomb blast.

a)

Pullman

b)

Haymarket

c)

Homestead

d)

Martiinsburg

11.

This was one of the earliest national unions. It eventually accepted all variety of workers.

a)

American Federation of Labor

b)

Knights of Labor

c)

American Railway Union

d)

Women's Trade Union League

12.

Name the leader of the American Railway Union. He was imprisoned as a result of the Pullman Strike.

a)

Eugene Debs

b)

Samuel Gompers

c)

Grover Cleveland

d)

John Rockefeller