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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 81900
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 13Monopoly Trust
Attempts 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 15UNION MEMBERSHIP, 1870 - 1920
Year Number 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?