The Gilded Age

Question 0

What three things happened to large railroads during and after consolidation?

Answer 0

1. They ruthlessly eliminated their competition
2. They expanded their railroads
3. They became extremely wealthy

Question 1

Railroads led to consolidation. What is consolidation?

Answer 1

Large companies buying out smaller ones

Question 2

The expansion of railroads led to what for what companies?

Answer 2

Boosting for steel, coal, and timber compaines

Question 3

What did the railroads do? They…

Answer 3

Divided the U.S. Into time zones

Question 4

What did Henry Ford introduce?

Answer 4

The assembly line

Question 5

What did Thomas Edison introduce? (4)

Answer 5

1. Electric Lights
2. Electric Streetcars and Subways
3. Motion Picture Camera
4. Phonograph

Question 6

What did the Wright Brothers do?

Answer 6

They had the first flight

Question 7

When did the Wright brothers have the first flight?

Answer 7

1903

Question 8

Corporation

Answer 8

A business owned by many investors

Question 9

Trust

Answer 9

a group of corporations led by a single board of directors

Question 10

What were the effects of railroads (5)

Answer 10

• They boosted coal, steel and timber companies
• they expanded railroad companies
• they created consolidation
• they made large railroad companies very wealthy
• they divided the U.S. Into time zones

Question 11

______ __________ named the time period “the gilded age” because it was a great time of _________.

Answer 11

Mark Twain

Change

Question 12

Gilding

Answer 12

taking a cheap metal such as lead and covering it with a thin layer of gold

Question 13

What did Henry Bessemer do?

Answer 13

developed a way to make cheap steel

Question 14

New Business organizations such as corporations and trusts led to the rise of “___ __________”

Answer 14

Big Business

Question 15

What did Robber Barons (Captains of Industry) do?

Answer 15

They led the way for new businesses

Question 16

What were two things that the captains of industry did?

Answer 16

Their Businesses expand the economy

They employ thousands

Question 17

What were two things the robber barons did?

Answer 17

They ruthlessly eliminate their competition

Their factories hav horrible working conditions

Question 18

Name 3 famous robber barons

Answer 18

Andrew Carnegie
J.P. Morgan
John D. Rockefeller

Question 19

collective bargaining

Answer 19

allowed Unions to negotiate contracts, wages, hours, etc. for all workers

Question 20

Assembly line

Answer 20

• A product moves from worker to worker

- Each worker performs one task in the making of the product

Question 21

Monopoly

Answer 21

Companies that control all businesses in a particular industry

Question 22

Trust

Answer 22

a group of corporations led by a single board of directors

Question 23

Effects of steel

Answer 23

allowed for the building of taller buildings which allowed cities to grow up as well as out (made housing more affordable)

Question 24

Thomas Edison

Answer 24

Started the “invention factory” at Menlo Park, NJ, a research laboratory where he and others created hundred of inventions