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