Industrialism

Question 1

Which of the following inventions/discoveries are credited with starting the industrial age of the late 19th century?

Answer 1

Cheap Steel and oil as fuel

Question 2

What 19th century law designed to help the working man, ended up being used against him?

Answer 2

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 3

of the following best explains the concept of Social Darwinism.

Answer 3

Survival of the fittest applied to people, rich shouldn’t extend helping hand

Question 4

Name the industrialists who controlled banking, oil, and steel respectively in the late 1800s.

Answer 4

J.P. Morgan, Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie

Question 5

Which Robber Baron was the most philanthropic of the bunch?

Answer 5

Andrew Carnegie

Question 6

In general, how did the movement toward unionization change during the last decades of the 1800s?

Answer 6

More strikes and more violent strikes

Question 7

Mother Jones is best known for her efforts to protect what group?

Answer 7

Children (famously led a child march or child labor laws)