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ON LEVEL REVIEWGilded Age Test Review
QUESTION 1
___________________________ Private ownership of business Some government regulation Competition among producers
What would be the most appropriate title for this group of items?
QUESTION 2
What business model is illustrated in the diagram?
_________________ did this with his oil refineries.
QUESTION 3
Why was the industrialization of America successful?
QUESTION 4
CORPORATION HOLDING COMPANY A company owned by
share holders and investors and DOES produce a product.
Does not produce anything itself. Instead, it owns the stock of companies that do produce goods.
What is the difference between these two definitions?
QUESTION 5
What topic that we have discussed this six weeks would make the best title for this box?
·Trusts
·Corporations
·Vertical integrations
·Land-labor capital
QUESTION 6
By the 1880s, the Standard Oil Company, under the direction of John D. Rockefeller and his associates, had gained control of more than 90 percent of the oil refining business in the United States. What did this allow to happen?
Excellent oil refining Control over a business and its prices
QUESTION 7
What did the larger number of immigrants provide for the growth of industry in America?
QUESTION 8
1900
Library of Congress
Do you see technology? How did technology help the people in these pictures?
QUESTION 9
Monopoly – when a single company achieves control of an _______ market.
Was the government involved in the “Big Business” era?
QUESTION 10
Free Enterprise System
Private property Competition keeps
prices low Profit motive
encourages production
?
What completes the blank?
Hint: Look up the definition of “Free Enterprise System.”
QUESTION 11
Strikes before 1900 Who did the government support? Workers? Company?
QUESTION 12
In an effort to increase profits what did the Ace Meat Industries Company do?
What is this process called?
QUESTION 13
Monopoly TrustAttempts to
_____________
What completes the blank?
Hint: What do monopolies want to do to the competition?
QUESTION 14
How can businesses/corporation raise funds for research and development of new products?
QUESTION 15
UNION MEMBERSHIP, 1870 - 1920
YearNumber of Workers
(excluding agriculture)
Average Annual Union
Members
Union Members as total of Workers (excluding
agriculture)
1870 6,075,000 300,000 4.9%
1880 8,807,000 200,000 2.3%
1890 13,380,000 372,000 2.7%
1900 18,161,000 868,000 4.8%
1910 25,779,000 2,140,000 8.3%
1920 30,985,000 5,048,000 16.3%
Why would workers join a labor union? What did it give them?
QUESTION 16
What can you infer about life in the tenements from Jacob Riis’ photography?
QUESTION 17
What social issue of the Gilded Age is depicted in this picture?
Why did this happen?
QUESTION 18
Why did people want to move to the cities?
QUESTION 19
Why did businesses use trusts?
Hint: Define Trust
QUESTION 20
Which one of the following demonstrates a policy of laissez-faire?
QUESTION 21
What was the purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?
QUESTION 22
Summarize this statement. What is the main
idea?
This then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenue…as trust funds…becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren…
—The Gospel of Wealth, Andrew Carnegie, 1889
QUESTION 23
____________ Night classes about
American History Community center
program on democracy in America
Teaching English in public school
Create a title for this list.
QUESTION 24
What did the invention of the light bulb do to factories?
QUESTION 25
Why did people move from the rural areas to urban areas?
QUESTION 26
Technology did what to the standard of living in America?
QUESTION 27
What did businesses rely on to regulate wages and prices?
QUESTION 28
In 1900 where did most of the immigrants to America come from?
QUESTION 29
Who was William Tweed?
QUESTION 30
What helped immigrants adjust to America?
QUESTION 31
What did Nativists what to do with the immigrants? How did they want
them grouped?
QUESTION 32
How did political machines help the immigrants?
How did the immigrants pay them back for their help?
QUESTION 33
Invented the telephone
Revolutionized communication For Business Use For Personal Use
QUESTION 34
What incident happened in 1886 that badly hurt the Knights of Labor Union?
QUESTION 35
Why was the American Federation of Labor so successful?