Gilded Age (STAAR)

_________linked goods and services through technology and transportation making commerce more affordable.

• National Market

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Bessemer Process

• Greyhound Bus

Process which made steel more affordable and profitable.

• Laissez-faire

• Interstate Commerce

• Bessemer

• National Market

Who made their fortune refining oil; founded Standard Oil?

• Samuel Gompers

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• JP Morgan

What are businessmen who are known for their positive contribution to the modern industrial economy called?

• Robber Barons

• Entrepreneurs

• Leaders

• Captains of Industry

This was designed to prevent companies from engaging in unfair practices that eliminated competition.

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Labor Unions

• Monopoly

He was a Scottish immigrant who made his fortune in steel; known for the Gospel of Wealth.

• Samuel Gompers

• JP Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

What was completed at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land to across the country.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Transcontinental Railroad

• National Market

• Reading Railroad

The theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market.

• Maslow

• Bessemer Process

• Free Enterprise

• Laisez-Faire

What union formed in 1898, hoped to create a single union of skilled and unskilled workers, demanded an 8 hour workday, safety codes, better pay and organized strikes to get companies to grant their demands?

• AFL (American Federation of Labor)

• Knights of Labor

• Knights of Columbus

• Congress of Industrial Organizations

This union limited membership to crafts and skilled workers creating a federation of unions.

• Knights of Labor

• Congress of Industrial Organizations

• AFL (American Federation of Labor)

• Knights of Columbus