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Gilded Age Quiz

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

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Date

What is a monopoly?

A group of businesses that work together to provide consumers with the best prices.

An organization of businesses that attempt to provide a wide variety of products to the markets.

An old monocle wearing man determined to put as many hotels on Park Place & Boardwalk as possible.

A market in which there is only one supplier of a product & no market competition.

“Robber barons”, such as John D. Rockefeller & Andrew Carnegie, used the concept of “vertical integration” to become successful in their fields of industrial expertise. What was “vertical integration”?

A business practice that contracted out all of its operations to smaller businesses, which results in profits that are much lower than wanted.

A business strategy in which one corporation owns not only the company that produce the finished product, but also the companies that provide the materials necessary for production.

The belief that business should purchase all of their materials necessary for production from companies other than their own.

An ideology that you should build your corporation’s office buildings taller, so that your business looks more important.

The muckraking journalists associated with the Progressive Era were known primarily for their

Willingness to expose the corruption of US society and business, as well as extreme poverty and unsafe work environments

Articles supporting the economic benefits of laissez-fair economics

Use of the media to advocate for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment

Support of the formation for the United Nations

Which of the following statements accurately reflects the reason for the growth of labor unions in the late 1800s?

American workers needed stronger bosses at the workplace to increase productivity

Government regulations required the creation of labor unions

American workers wanted better working conditions and higher wages

Companies wanted their employees to form unions

America's economy during the Gilded Age can be characterized by a switch from a(n) ____________ economy to an industrial economy.

Agricultural

Service

Banking

Education

Which of the following reasons would be a primary cause of mass urbanization during the Gilded Era?

Expensive farm prices in the west

Over use of farmland in the South

Mass immigration from China

Increase of Farm technology and machinery led to increase in industrial labor

Which of the following was NOT an issue in American cities created by mass urbanization?

Unsanitary living conditions

Increase of crime rates due to mass poverty

terrible and unsafe work conditions

Housing shortages

As a result of mass urbanization, cities responded by building ______________, which were large apartment like structures, where families lives in very close quarters and typically unsanitary conditions:

Apartments

Rental Homes

Tenaments

Condos

Journalist who wrote articles trying to expose the harsh working conditions of American factories were known as.....

Investigative Journalist

Detectives

Muckrakers

Novelist

10.

What is vertical integration in business?

Merging with companies at different stages of production

Merging with competitors in the same industry

Expanding into new geographic markets

Developing new product lines internally

11.

Which of these is an example of vertical integration?

A shoe retailer buying a leather supplier

Coca-Cola buying Pepsi

McDonald's opening new franchise locations

Nike acquiring Reebok

12.

What is Horizontal Integration?

The process of a company expanding its operations by acquiring or merging with companies at different stages of production.

The process of a company expanding its operations by acquiring or merging with companies in the same industry and at the same stage of production.

The process of a company entering into new geographic markets with existing products.

The process of a company diversifying into completely different industries.

13.

How did Andrew Carnegie become wealthy?

Through investments in the steel industry and the establishment of Carnegie Steel Company.

Through winning the lottery.

By inheriting a large fortune from his family.

Through successful real estate investments.

14.

Who was known for using horizontal integration to dominate the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

J.P. Morgan

John D. Rockefeller

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Andrew Carnegie

15.

What did Cornelius Vanderbilt use to build a railroad empire?

Brute force and intimidation

Diplomacy and negotiation

Financial manipulation

Technology and innovation

16.

What industry did John D. Rockefeller create a total monopoly of?

Steel industry

Oil industry

Railroad industry

Automobile industry

17.

Who is known for consolidating broken industries and buying out failing companies?

JP Morgan

Thomas Edison

Henry Frick

Andrew Carnegie

18.

What was the main goal of muckrakers?

expose the wrongdoings of industrialization

Clean up the streets

Win Nobel Peace Prizes

19.

Muckrakers were...

Singers

Street Cleaners

Writers

20.

What muckraker wrote The Jungle, which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry?

Upton Sinclair

Lincoln Steffens

Jacob Riis

Frank Norris

21.

Nickname for journalists who exposed corruption and deficits of urban America:

Gump Mushers

Muckrakers

Scalawags

Dirt Diggers

22.

Jacob Riis used a different medium to demonstrate the way corporate greed led to the impoverishment of American city-life.

His book, How the Other Half Lives, used __________________ to expose urban living conditions.

Music

Audio Recordings

Paintings

Photographs

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Gilded Age Quiz

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 12mins

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