Industrialization and the Gilded Age

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A person who organizes and assumes risk of business.

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entrepreneur

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Early leader of the oil industry who formed the Standard Oil Company.

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John D. Rockefeller

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A company whose only function was to own stock in other corporations.

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holding company

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What can you infer about Standard Oil from the cartoon? Options: It is powerful enough to destroy its competition, It controls off shore drilling, It will monopolize off shore oil shipping, It has no competition

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It is powerful enough to destroy its competition

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The successful railroad consolidator.

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Which of the following is NOT an impact of Industrialization? Urbanization, Strikes, Tenements, Imperialism

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Imperialism

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Belief that Americans are inherently better and deserve the jobs being taken by immigrants, therefore immigrants need to be restricted.

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Nativism

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Who is known as the Commodore?

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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A business organization formed when several companies gave control of their operations to a board of trustees.

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trust

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The huge business combinations to limit competition were formed largely through...

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holding companies and trusts