Chapter 9 Quiz Review

The time of growing prosperity in the U.S. in the late 1800's is often called ____.

• the Growing Age

• Reconstruction

• the Golden Age

• the Gilded Age

Match the following

• Andrew Carnegie

• Was America's most important manufacturer of steel.

• John D. Rockefeller

• Was America's leader in the oil industry

• James J. Hill

• Built the Great Northern Railway without using government money.

Match the following

• Thomas Edison

• Invented the Kodak camera & rolled film

• George Eastman

• Invented the typewriter that first used the QWERTY keyboard.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Experimented with the light bulb, invented the light bulb wiring, and invented the phonograph.

• George Pullman

• Was the first to patent the telephone.

• Christopher Sholes

• Invented a comfortable train car that allowed passengers to enjoy better sleep on long journeys.

Match the following

• trust

• An economic system in which the people own the country's goods and businesses

• philanthropist

• A business that is owned by many people

• corporation

• A person who gives large sums of money to help public causes.

• capitalism

• A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation

A ________ is an organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes.

• capitalist

• labor union

• trust

• corporation

_____ invented an air brake for trains to help prevent the problem of runaway trains.

• George Pullman

• Christopher Sholes

• George Westinghouse

• Thomas Edison

____ is the idea that only the "fittest", or "strongest/better", people can survive in society.

• labor union

• trust

• corporation

• Social Darwinism