History Week 17 Quiz Gilded Age

American businessman who built his wealth in railroads and shipping and is best known for building the New York Central Railroad

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

invented the telephone in 1876

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

American business who led the expansion of the steel industry in the late 19th century through the practice of vertical integration

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

American businessman who co-founded Standard Oil Company and through the practice of horizontal integration, formed the first great U.S. business trust

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

inventor best known for inventing the phonograph, the motion-picture projector

and the incandescent light bulb

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Thomas Edison

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

founder and president of the American Federation of Labor

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Samuel Gompers

• William Jennings Bryan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Alexander Graham Bell

politician who stood 3 times as the Populist Party's candidate for US President

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Samuel Gompers

• William Jennings Bryan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Langhorn Clemens

author best known for his novels published under his pen name: Mark Twain

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Samuel Gompers

• William Jennings Bryan

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Langhorn Clemens

largest American labor organization of the 1880s that worked to uplift the workingman, reject socialism, and demand an eight-hour day

• Knights of Labor

• Farmers Alliance

• American Federation of Labor

• Grange

national federation of labor unions, founded by an alliance of craft unions

• Knights of Labor

• Farmers Alliance

• American Federation of Labor

• Grange