Big Business-Gilded Age Test

Industrialists of the late 1800s contributed most to economic growth by

The term business monopoly can best be described as

The items on this list would likely appear in a chapter about the working conditions in the

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

The slogan "8 hours for work, 8 for sleep, 8 for what we will" was used to promote a major goal

What is the main idea of this cartoon from the 1800s?

The term business monopoly can best be described as

Which two speakers would most likely label late 19th century industrialists as robber barons?

Protective tariffs, railroad subsidies, open immigration showed the Fed. gov't followed policy

During the late 1800s, business leaders formed trusts mainly to

Which 19th century business practice does this cartoon illustrate?

One advantage of a corporation over an individually owned business is that the corporation has

The terms bread & butter unionism, Gospel of Wealth, mechanization would be in a chapter about

One reason big business often employed court injunctions against labor unions was that

Late 19th century owners of big business embraced Social Darwinism b/c it reinforced belief

One reason Rockefeller, Carnegie, & Morgan were sometimes called robber barons was because they

The American Federation of Labor responded to the situation shown in the cartoon by

A significant contribution to the industrialization of the US was Henry Ford's development of

The conclusion that can be drawn from different viewpoints of these speakers is industrialists

The main purpose of this 1886 poster was to

What is the main idea of this cartoon?

The 19th century philosophy of Social Darwinism maintained that

"The business of America is business." With this President Coolidge expressed his support of

What is the main idea of this cartoon?

The railroad strikes, Haymarket Affair, & Pullman Strike show labor unions of that period were

What major trend related to population occurred during industrialization boom of the late 1800s

In the last half of the 1800s, which development led to the other three?

Samuel Gompers, Terence Powderly, & Eugene Debs were leaders in the movement to

Which factor most influenced the growth of the U.S. economy between 1865 and 1900?

Between 1865 & 1900, what was the general attitude of the federal gov't concerning labor unions