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WorksheetsGilded Age Test
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
exclusive control of a product or service in a particular market
Trust
Monopoly
Calavary
Corruption
A group of workers from the same industry or company.
Calvary
Corruption
Labor Union
Trust
Select the names of the industrial capitalists of the Gilded Age.
Alexander Graham Bell
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P Morgan
Select the names of three famous inventors from the Gilded Age.
George Washington Carver
Elon Musk
Steve Jobs
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
How were individual companies able to become so powerful in the Gilded Age? (Choose 2)
Labor unions were created to help protect workers.
Monopolies and trusts gave industry leaders more control.
Arbitration made a lot of industry leaders wealthy.
Advancements in advertising and transportation helped create national markets.
Specialization left owners with more time to invest in other businesses.
What conditions led to the development of labor unions? (Choose 2)
arbitration
low wages and long hours
strikes
unsafe working conditions
collective bargaining
How was the Gilded Age a time of economic disparity?
Most people became very wealthy, but a few people were very poor.
A few people became very wealthy, but most people were very poor.
Almost everyone gained wealth and was able to buy new goods such as cars and TVs.
Wealth was redistributed so everyone had approximately the same amount of money to spend.
If their preferred method to improve working conditions failed, labor unions would sometimes use __________ , which occasionally led to violence.
collective bargaining
strikes
laissez faire policies
George Washington Carver invented __________ that can be produced from peanuts and sweet potatoes.
2 products
approximately 100 products
more than 300 products
Explain the importance that inventors have on today’s American society. What inventions today impact your life the most?
