Gilded Age Review

Who experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph?

• Bell
• Edison
• Rockefeller

A business that is owned by many people is called what?

• capitalism
• shop
• corporation

What is a person called who gives large sums of money to help public causes?

• stockholder
• inventor
• philanthropist

Who owned most of America's steel companies?

• Edison

• Rockefeller

• Carnegie

What is the term for several smaller companies combine to form a larger corporation?

• trust
• investor
• company

 A business owned by many people is called what?

• investor
• corporation
• stockholder

What is the name of the economic system in which people own the country's goods and businesses?

• capitalism
• communism
• socialism

Who owned most of America's oil companies?

• Rockefeller

• Carnegie

• Sholes

Who was the first person to patent the telephone?

• Edison
• Bell
• Whitney

What is the term for an organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes in the work place?

• investor
• inventor
• labor union