Unit 2- US History Review

Front

Who invented the telephone and revolutionized communication? Options: Guglielmo Marconi, Alexander Graham Bell, Steve Jobs, Thomas Edison

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Alexander Graham Bell

Front

This process converted iron to steel and allowed for taller buildings, longer bridges, and heavier machinery.

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Bessemer Process

Front

Who invented the phonograph, audio recorder, battery, and electric lightbulb?

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Thomas Edison

Front

Who controlled the railroad industry during the Gilded Age?

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

Front

Who owned Standard Oil and controlled most of the oil industry during the Gilded Age?

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John D Rockefeller

Front

This man gained his wealth and power from banking and finances during the Gilded Age.

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JP Morgan

Front

This type of monopoly involves companies buying all of the similar companies (Standard Oil)

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Horizontal Integration

Front

This type of monopoly involves buying each step of the production process (Carnegie Steel)

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Vertical Integration

Front

Wealthy monopolists believed that God's will gave them wealth and power so they could serve society. Options: Social Gospel, Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Trusts

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Gospel of Wealth

Front

This is a term for when one company controls the majority of an industry

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Monopoly