The Gilded Age Review

Credited with 1,084 patents for inventions, including phonograph, light bulb, electric generator, motion picture, and alkaline battery.

• Nikola Tesla
• Jefferson Davis
• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Edison

An organization of workers that tries to improve working conditions, wages, and benefits for its members

• Settlement House
• Labor Union
• Industrialization
• Pullman Strike

With the help of Nikola Tesla, he developed the alternating current (AC) system to distribute electricity over long distances using transformers and generators

• George Westinghouse
• Thomas Edison
• The Wright Brothers
• Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell invented what communication device?

• Telephone
• Telegraph
• Xylophone
• Mega Phone

Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully engineered what?

• Bicycle
• Train
• Automobile
• Airplane

Which robber baron was head of Standard Oil during the Gilded Age?

• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• J.P. Morgan
• John D. Rockefeller

The American Railway Union refused to handle Pullman cars and rail traffic ground to a halt, helping show the power of unions in this event?

• Haymarket Riot
• Great Railroad Strike
• Pullman Strike
• Baseball Strike

Why were individuals like John. D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P Morgan and Vanderbilt called Robber Barons?

• They were nice to people
• They stole money from the government
• They robbed the rich
• They used ruthless business tactics against other companies and competitors

An extreme dislike of anyone not born in the United States

• Populism
• Anti-Immigration League
• Nativism
• Massism

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
• Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture
• Law that prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs
• The growth of cities