Gilded Age

Question 1

How did government policies of the Gilded Age of the late 1800s promote industrialization?

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Laissez-faire policies let private business operate freely

Question 2

How did the growth of the steel industry affect other industry.

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led to the growth of building and transportation industries

Question 3

What needed fixing in the Gilded Age?

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All of the above

Question 4

What is the BEST description of the Second Industrial Revolution?

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Mass production, innovative communication & transportation

Question 5

Standard Oil Company

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Control of nation’s oil production using monopolistic tactic

Question 6

By calling their era the "Gilded Age," authors Mark Twain and Charles Warner were

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criticizing corruption

Question 7

Why were labor unions created?

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To improve worker's conditions, Negotiate wages and working conditions

Question 8

Characterized by industrialization, robber barons, captains of industry and anti trust laws.

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Gilded Age

Question 9

One of the problems with the industrial revolution was

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all of these were major problems

Question 10

Alexander Graham Bell is credited with inventing

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Telephone

Question 11

What is a labor strike?

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Work stoppage due to mass refusal of employees to work

Question 12

Who wrote about the problems of industrialization

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muckrakers

Question 13

Which Robber Baron dominated the railroad industry?

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Vanderbilt

Question 14

Why was Thomas Edison important?

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his inventions changed the world

Question 15

How did the assembly line change production of goods?

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Made goods cheaper/more accessible and created menial jobs

Question 16

What was the Gilded Age?

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A period of economic growth as the U.S. jumped

Question 17

Thomas Edison: What did he invent?

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Light Bulb, Motion Picture Camera, PhonoGraph

Question 18

How did the Social Darwinism theory justify robber barons' actions?

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Wealth is a measure of value, poor people have less value

Question 19

The Industrial Revolution provided

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Mass production, Factory System, New Jobs

Question 20

What made Andrew Carnegie work so hard to be successful?

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Seeing his family in poverty

Question 21

Co-founder of Standard Oil, used ruthless tactics to eliminate competition in oil

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John Rockefeller

Question 22

Bessemer Process

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Cold air is forced through molten iron to remove impurities

Question 23

what does the Bessemer process do

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A way to manufacture steel quickly and cheaply

Question 24

During the Gilded Age (1880's) people left the country and headed to the cities.

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this was called urbanization

Question 25

Rockefeller, Morgan, and Vanderbilt were referred to as robber barons because they

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were ruthless in dealing with competitors

Question 26

All of the following represent economic problems of the Gilded Age EXCEPT

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Massive increases in taxation across all classes of society

Question 27

JP Morgan controlled this industry:

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Banking

Question 28

Common problems of increased urbanization included all of the following EXCEPT

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lack of transportation

Question 29

How did labor unions support factory workers?

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They negotiated with business owners and organized strikes

Question 30

Who got rich during the Gilded Age?

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White men who were entrepenuers

Question 31

Who controlled the oil industry?

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John D. Rockefeller

Question 32

Thomas Edison...

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Developed DC Power, Creator of the Carbon Filament Light Bulb, Was an American inventor and businessman, Held over 1000 patents to his name

Question 33

What was Andrew Carnegie known for?

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Owner of the largest corporation in U.S. history, Steel Tycoon

Question 34

Who created the assembly line and the Model T?

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Henry Ford

Question 35

Business dominated by Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Railroads

Question 36

Entrance point for millions of European immigrants during America's Gilded Age

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Ellis Island

Question 37

What does GILDED mean?

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Gold on the outside rotten on the inside

Question 38

What did John D. Rockefeller establish?

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Standard oil

Question 39

A major problem many still faced in the Gilded Age was...

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Bad working conditions

Question 40

What is Cornelius Vanderbilt known for?

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Dominated in railroads and shipping industries

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