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WorksheetsCaptains of Industry
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A less expensive and easier way to make steel. It increased production and lowered the price of steel in the US dramatically. Allowed skyscrapers to be built.
a)
Industrial Revolution
b)
Bessemer Process
c)
JP Morgan
d)
Hull House
2.
The total or complete control of a service, product or industry that prevents competition
a)
Union
b)
Robber Barron
c)
Monopoly
d)
Captain of Industry
3.
____________ is a negative term to describe the great industrialists of the Gilded Age and __________ is a positive term to describe them.
a)
Robber Barons, Captains of Industry
b)
Captains of Industry, Robber Barons
4.
________________ is the term used to describe the wealthy that used ruthless business practices.
a)
Industrial Giants
b)
Captains of Industry
c)
Robber Barons
d)
Union Leaders
5.
Carnegie, Rockefeller or Morgan: Was an oil tycoon
a)
Carnegie
b)
Morgan
c)
Rockefeller
6.
Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in...
a)
flight
b)
oil
c)
railroads
d)
automobiles
7.
Owned every step of the steel making process
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Morgan
c)
Carnegie
d)
All of them
8.
Banking industry
a)
Rockefeller
b)
Morgan
c)
Carnegie
d)
All of them
9.
Between the Civil War and WWI the US was transformed from an agricultural to an _____ nation.
a)
industrial
b)
civilized
c)
archaic
d)
agrarian
10.
My product helped to build sky scrapers and stronger bridges. I am ___________________
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Thomas Edison
d)
John D. Rockefeller
11.
Easy access to materials and energy, immigrant labor, new inventions and financial resources were all reasons why ________ grew in America.
a)
poverty
b)
farming
c)
industries
d)
agriculture
12.
Which three big businesses transformed America in the years between 1870 and 1914?
a)
meatpacking, automobile, and construction
b)
railroads, steel and oil
c)
textile, meatpacking and canals
d)
political machines, settlement houses and ghettos
13.
Most "new" immigrants of the industrial era came from:
a)
Asia
b)
Western Europe
c)
Southeastern Europe
d)
Latin America
14.
Religious persecution, political instability, exhausted resources, and war. These are examples of:
a)
Push Factors
b)
Pull Factors
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