True or False
During the Gilded Age American cities grew because people from rural areas moved to the cities
True
an organized group of workers that unite to go on strike to force their employers to make changes is called a
labor union
The person who experimented with the light bulb and invented the phonograph
Who built the Great Northern Railway?
James J. Hill
Popular cities where many immigrants settled were Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco
true
A business that is owned by many people is called a
corporation
The person who was first to patent the telephone was
Alexander Graham Bell
Who was the first person to make millions in the transportation industry?
Cornelius Vanderbuilt
The evolutionist Herbert Spences promoted the idea that only the educated survive in society.
false- the fittest
A combination of several smaller companies into one gigantic corporation is called a. ______.
trust
The person who led America's oil industry
John D. Rockefeller
How did some authors use realism in the works of literature during the Gilded Age? or what is realism?
Life was portrayed just as it was.
The Sherman Antitrust Act sought to increase the power a corporation could have.
A person who gives large sums of money to help public causes is called a ______.
philanthropist
The person who was America's most important manufacturer of steel
Andrew Carnegie
Who wrote articles encouraging Christians to take the Bible at it word?
BB Warfield
What is Mrs. Milander's favorite flower?
sunflower
An economy system in which the people own the country's goods and businesses is called ______.
capitalism
The inventor of the typewriter that first used the QWERTY keyboard
What did Jane Addam's Hull-House offer immigrant women?
childcare, medical care