WorksheetsGilded Age
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 56mins
Who invented the Assembly line?
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who was the captain of the steel industry?
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who had a monopoly on the oil business?
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Who greatly expanded the American railroad system?
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan made a fortune through...
Banking and Electricity
Steel and Oil
Railroads and Shipping
Automobiles and the Assembly Line
Who invented the telephone?
Nikola Tesla
Alexander Graham Bell
The Wright Brothers
Karl Marx
How did Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb affect the economy?
He formed a monopoly on electricity
He caused electricity to go out of date
He decreased the amount of electricity Americans used
He increased the demand for electricity
Which city became the core of the steel industry during industrialization?
Detroit, MI
Pittsburgh, PA
New England
Atlanta, GA
What was a common characteristic of the Pullman Strike, Haymarket Affair, and Homestead Strike?
They were defeats for owners
They were victories for unions
They became violent
They were victories for workers
Captains of Industry valued competition in a free market because they believed only the strongest companies would survive and result in better goods and services. This is an example of
Unionism
Control Market
Socialism
Social Darwinism
What are companies who dominate a specific industry (steel, oil, etc.) called?
Monopolies
Local Business
Corporations
Competitors
What did Union workers do when negotiations with their employers failed?
They set factories on fire
They went on strike
They used collective bargaining
They gave up and went home
Laissez-faire
belief that the government should have very little involvement in economics
belief that the government should direct the economy
belief that the economy does not matter or is not important
belief that the economy should be determined by employees only
Tariff
a specific law that applies only to states in the south
a limit on how many immigrants can enter the country
a type of law that leads to jail time
a tax on imported or exported good
Horizontal Integration
Working from a laying down position
Bringing in your family to help you run your business
Owning all steps of the process for production
Owning many of the businesses in a certain field
Trust/Monopoly
The business practice of owning all of the businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process.
larger merger of several businesses in a given industry, giving them the power to control the industry
A business owned by shareholders who possess ownership rights to the firm’s profits
when your make a deal to never tell the secrets of the business
Union
The production, processing and storage of farm products.
An official rule or law that says how something should of should not be done.
Owning all the businesses in a certain field
An organization of workers formed to protect the rights and interests of its members
Vertical Integration
Owning all the businesses in a certain field
larger merger of several businesses in a given industry giving them a monopoly
An official rule or law that says how something should or should not be done.
The business practice of owning all of the businesses involved in each step of a manufacturing process.
This picture from America in the 1800s shows
Children in recreation and leisure
Industrialization and the assembly line
A company that collaborates with employees to reform laws
Employees who took control of the factories in which they worked
This proves that workers tolerated poor wages and working conditions because they
Could be replaced easily by other workers
Believed it had to get worse before it got better
thought that the government would protect them
Were tricked by employers into taking dangerous jobs
Who of the following would use this picture to justify the idea that competition breeds success?
Socialists
Union Leaders
Social Darwinists
Transcendentalists
Which of the following interpretations best represents the artist's view of Rockefeller?
Rockefeller is a builder in the American economy
Companies are willingly joining the Standard Oil Company
Industries are being saved by Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company
Rockefeller is taking over the economy and is not able to be stopped
Which of the following acts should have controlled Rockefeller?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
The Constitution of America
The Declaration of Independence
Interstate Commerce Commission
Which of the following statements supports the artist's interpretation of Rockefeller?
"The Captains of Industry were innovators and thinkers"
"The Industrialist Robber Barons.....were predatory and materialistic"
"Much of the blame heaped on the captains of industry is unwarranted"
"Though their methods were questionable, (their) methods were a natural response to the time period"
In response to the 1894 Pullman strike, the US government
nationalized the company
used federal troops to subdue the workers
forced the striking workers to collectively bargain
used federal troops to operate the trains until the strike ended
The greatest economic consequence of the transcontinental railroad network was that it
developed a skilled industrial workforce
united the nation into a single, integrated national market
enabled people from farms and small towns to visit all the big cities
enabled farmers to make a highly profitable living by shipping their goods across the country
A monopoly is best defined as
a business that provides a necessity to the general public
a market situation where there is only a single provider of a good or service
a negotiation by workers as a group with business owners over compensation
an arrangement of similar businesses created to regulate production and control pricing
Which of the following was NOT among the technologies invented or improved by Thomas Edison?
the phonograph
the mimeograph
the Model T
the electric light bulb
The first major product of the oil industry was
gasoline
kerosene
heating oil
natural gas
The laissez-faire economic policies of the United States during the nineteenth century led to
a system of protective tariffs
the creation of a national bank
a largely unregulated market for industry
a decline in immigration to western states
Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the
mid-nineteenth century?
People moved to cities in search of economic opportunity.
Farmers began to cultivate land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Native peoples were forcibly relocated to western territories.
Government officials began to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny.
Which term can be defined by: a suggests that a thin layer of prosperity covered the poverty and corruption of much of society.
Gilded Age
Nativism
Political Machine Era
Laissez-Faire
The belief that the rich were chosen by god to be rich and should therefore share their wealth.
Gospel of Wealth
laissez faire
capitalism
Social Darwinism
a cause of industrialization
civil war
immigration
natural resources
all of the above
Study the image. (Remember, to best understand a visual prompt, you need to consider ALL the information presented: dates, characters/individuals represented, setting, descriptions, source, etc.)
Which idea of the late 1800s is MOST closely associated with the cartoon above?
Regulated Capitalism
Horizontal Integration
Gospel of Wealth
Graduated income taxes
Which of the following BEST describes horizontal integration?
The economic development of flatlands in the American west.
A company owns all the businesses that supply it with raw goods and necessary services.
When the government lets businesses operate without restrictions.
A company acquires similar competing businesses and merges them into a single entity.
