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The Gilded Age: Business and Industry
The Gilded Age: Business and Industry
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Questions based on the TEKS and only apply to the Gilded Age & Industrialization.
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1
Unions provided no help to the common worker during the gilded age.
False
True
2
Whose invention led factories to be able to work at night much easier
Carrier / Air conditioning
Bell / Telephone
Edison / electric bulb
McCormick/reaper
3
What were conditions like for many workers during this time?
very few rights & protection
All of these are correct
long hours/low pay
boring & dangerous work
4
People did this to demand political or economic change.
Worked
Cheered
Kept to themselves
None of the above
5
Interstate Commerce Act attempted to stop railroads and other trusts and monopolies
True
False
6
What important event(s) happened before the Gilded Age?
WWI
WWII
Civil War & Reconstruction
Colonization
7
Who believed this quote about philanthropy?
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
Edison
Rockefeller
8
Who probably supplied the material to build this bridge?
Vanderbilt
Rockefeller
Morgan
Carnegie
9
Industrialization brought everything to the U.S. except
Unskilled workers
Farm workers
Immigrants
Overcrowded cities
10
Which of following is NOT a positive affect of Big Business?
more products for many
more production
no competition
lower prices
11
Who built the station depicted in this scene?
Rockefeller
Jones
Vanderbilt
Eads
12
Only the fittest survive in business.
Social Harmony
Social Darwinism
Social Contract
Social Evolution
13
Who invented this machine?
Carnegie
Bessemer
Rockefeller
Darwin
14
What was the importance of this photo?
first taken showing conditions for poor
Jay Reece took it
it made the photographer very rich
it was used to start a war
15
Unions struggled with popular opinion after these incidents
Homestead Strike & Haymarket Riot
Jefferson Strike & Madison Riots
16
Big differences between rich and poor named this by Mark Twain.
Gilded Age
Golden Age
Girdle Age
Gridiron Age
17
The octopus is Standard Oil. What competition stopping business practice does it represent.
free-enterprise
Laissez-faire
a monopoly
philanthrophy
18
Who is depicted in this cartoon from the Gilded Age?
Carnegie
Cornilison
Scot
Vanderbilt
19
Who issued this stock?
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John Rockefeller
20
Businesses spurred national growth,donated big money to leaders, Gov't left business alone.
False
True
21
What part of the Gilded Age is represented in this photo?
good wages
child labor
good factories
safe machines
