Gilded Age

Which of the following terms means a single company that controls the price of a product since it is the only seller of a particular product?

• conglomerate

• monopoly

• trust

• integration

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States. (Masked in gold)

• World War I

• Progressive Era

• Gilded age

• Roaring Twenties

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration from a particular Asian country for 10 years

• Nativist Act

• Mexican Reparition Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

As the emergence & increase in railroad production/use during the late 1800s; describe which other industries benefited from railroad use:

• steel & oil

• oil & timber

• oil, steel, & timber

• none of the above

As immigration increased during the late 1800's to early 1900's, Ellis Island & Angel Island became major ports of entry from which two continents?

• North America & Europe

• South America & Asia

• Europe & Russia

• Asia & Europe

This man's company, Standard Oil Company, controlled a monopoly on the oil industry by controlling 90% of the oil refiners in the US:

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

This individuals invention of the light bulb allowed for factories to now operate of a 24hr work day schedule:

• Thomas Edison

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Andrews Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

The last major conflict between the US government and the Native Americans. It resulted in the massacring of over 300 Sioux men, women and children by the US Army:

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Pearl Harbor

• The Great Massacre

• Wounded Knee Massacre

This steel magnet created the Carnegie Steel Company that produced and distributed steel all across the US during the Gilded Age:

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

This law passed by President Abraham Lincoln gave western settlers 160 acres & $10 to move west. However, the settlers must live on the land for a minimum of 5 years:

• Homestead Act

• Stamp Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act