Gilded Age CFA #1

What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

• Electricity

• Railroad

• Telephone

• Oil refining

What innovation contributed to the rapid industrialization (growth of factories) of the United States?

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

Many immigrants found work as-

• unskilled labor in factories

• farmers on the Great Plains

• skilled craftsmen

• Educators

What is one positive about the laissez-faire politics?

• Immigrants were exploited by political machines

• Entrepreneurs started businesses without government interference

• American workers formed labor unions

• Many immigrants lived in tenements

What idea is the cartoon addressing?

• Monopoly

• Laissez Faire

• Americanization

• Industrial Revolution

What was one positive of wealthy industrialists?

• Paying their workers low wages

• Philanthropic donations to charity

• Supporting Social Darwinism

• Working with political machines

Which is NOT a conclusion that can be made about the transcontinental railroad?

• Goods were transported across country
• Travel across the country was possible
• Populations in the west increased
• Railroad reduced the size of the US

Which group believed in survival of the fittest and people were naturally selected to succeed?

• Social Darwinists

• political bosses
• nativists

• political machines

Which one of these men was not a robber baron with a monopoly and ruthless business tactics?

• Andrew Carnegie
• JP Morgan
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

Which is not a characteristic of a business monopoly?

• Control all of a product's production
• business competition
• Cause prices to rise

• put all competition out of business