Period 6: Gilded Age & Political Corruption 1865-1900

Question 1

In 1880, Thomas Edison created the

Answer 1

lightbulb

Question 2

Henry ford engineered a manufacturing system scheme that focused on __________

Answer 2

mass production

Question 3

Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan are named:

Answer 3

captains of industry or robber barons

Question 4

Which Robber Baron had the New York Central Railroad?

Answer 4

Cornelius VandderBILT

Question 5

Which robber baron had the US Steel Corporation?

Answer 5

Andrew CCCarnegie

Car-Cor

Question 6

Which Robber Baron had the Standard Oil Company

Answer 6

rOckefeller

Question 7

Which robber baron had the JP Morgan and Company (bank)

Answer 7

J.P. Morgan

Question 8

Industrialization impacted society by minimizing their _______________

Answer 8

independence

Question 9

employers paid ____ wages with ___ hours

Answer 9

low, long

Question 10

employers cut costs by hiring ____ & ____

Answer 10

women and children

Question 11

union of skilled workers who were trying to create idealistic working conditions

Answer 11

Knights of Labor

Question 12

riot in Chicago with the focus of an 8 hour work day, but quickly got violent once a bomb went off in Haymarket Square

Answer 12

Haymarket Riot 1886

Question 13

protesting policies (rent, cost of living, etc.) were workers were REQUIRED to live

Answer 13

Pullman strike

P for Policies

Question 14

Social Darwinism advocated for

Answer 14

survival of the fittest (AKA Laizze-faire)

Question 15

written by Andrew Carnegie took on social darwinism: people who have wealth are the guardians of society

Answer 15

Gosepl of Wealth

Question 16

Who was the Populist Party

Answer 16

farmers who wanted to get their voices heard to the gov.

Question 17

sharecropping made farmers ____

Answer 17

mad and poor