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WorksheetsBig Business & Unions
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
What industrial giant created a steel empire in Pittsburgh
Swift
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Debs
What man created an oil empire in Cleveland?
Rockefeller
Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
Pullman
What term describes the merger of companies in one area of business?
monopoly
corporation
vertical integration
horizontal integration
What is the term for a government's "hands-off" approach to the economy?
socialism
laissez-faire
tariff
philanthropy
Corporate greed resulted in the formation of these, in which a company controls an entire market.
horizontal integration
monopoly
vertical integration
holding company
What term describes the merger of companies so that a single firm controls all aspects of production?
monopoly
Social Darwinism
horizontal integration
vertical integration
The idea that millionaires are a product of natural selection.
Social Darwinism
Philanthropy
Laissez-Faire
Philanthropy
Taking part in actions that benefit society, as practiced by the wealthy, then and now.
Charity
Social Darwinism
Philanthropy
Horizontal Integration
Large railroad strike over unfair conditions in a company town.
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket Riot
Homestead
Pullman
Chicago labor rally in which participants were killed in a bomb blast.
Pullman
Haymarket
Homestead
Martiinsburg
This was one of the earliest national unions. It eventually accepted all variety of workers.
American Federation of Labor
Knights of Labor
American Railway Union
Women's Trade Union League
Name the leader of the American Railway Union. He was imprisoned as a result of the Pullman Strike.
Eugene Debs
Samuel Gompers
Grover Cleveland
John Rockefeller
