Gilded Age

Question 1

Robber Barons

Answer 1

wealthy industrialists who practiced exploitation and did anything to be rich

Question 2

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Answer 2

robber baron of the railroad

Question 3

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 3

wealthiest man in history, robber baron of oil

Question 4

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 4

robber baron of steel

Question 5

JP Morgan

Answer 5

robber baron of banking and electricity

Question 6

Laissez Faire

Answer 6

French term to prevent the government from interfering with economic affairs

Question 7

Monopoly

Answer 7

when one business dominates an industry and destroys competition

Question 8

Trust

Answer 8

a mechanism by which one company grants control over its operations, through ownership of its stock, to another company

when one company owns a multitude of other smaller ones

Question 9

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Answer 9

A federal law that committed the American govt. to opposing monopolies. It prohibited contracts, combinations, and conspiracies in restraint of trade (outlawed trust and monopolies)

Question 10

Horatio Alger

Answer 10

New England ex-pastor who began his literary career in 1866, wrote 100 books of fiction where virtue and honest and industry were rewarded with success, wealth, and honor.

Question 11

Social Darwinism

Answer 11

survival of the fittest

Question 12

Granges

Answer 12

farmer’s union

Question 13

Populist Party

Answer 13

party of farmers and laborers that wanted direct election of senators

Question 14

Interstate Commerce Commission

Answer 14

govt. agency that established to regulate the railroad

Question 15

Public Utility

Answer 15

a privately owned business that’s govt. regulated

Question 16

American Federation of Laborers

Answer 16

led by Samuel Gompers for skilled workers

Question 17

Industrial Workers of the World

Answer 17

union for unskilled workers led by Bill Haywood

Question 18

lockout

Answer 18

closing a factory or workplace to prevent workers from going to work and planning

Question 19

scab

Answer 19

workers who replaced those who went on strike

Question 20

Collective Bargaining

Answer 20

when owners and union workers negotiate conditions for employment

Question 21

Yellow Dog Contract

Answer 21

a contract with owners to never join a union

Question 22

Blacklist

Answer 22

list of people who owners won’t hire

Question 23

inventions Edison made

Answer 23

light bulb, motion picture camera, phonograph, microphone, hollywood

Question 24

graham bell invention

Answer 24

telephone

Question 25

bessemer invention

Answer 25

steel made from open hearth furnaces

Question 26

sholes invention

Answer 26

typewriter

Question 27

what jobs did most women have?

Answer 27

secretaries and operators