Gilded Age
These were the 4 captains of industry during the Gilded Age.
Who are Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and J.P. Morgan?
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
What is bank failures throughout the country?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This is when a group owes a large sum of money put can't pay it off.
What is a debt?
This percent of the population was below the poverty line during the Gilded Age.
What is 92%?
What are Muckrakers?
This was when the stock market crashed.
When is October 29th 1929?
This act allowed the government to assist banks in need.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
This is when America or any other country has too little money to succeed.
What is a deficit?
This was the large railway system built by Cornelius Vanderbilt.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This was the name of the scarring book we read about the meat industry.
What is the Jungle (I'm scarred)?
This is approximately how many people were unemployed.
What is 12 million?
The National Youth Administration provided work study jobs to these students.
Who are college students?
This is a legal prohibition or ban on commerce.
What is an embargo?
These were the two methods the Captains of Industry used to remove competition.
What are Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration?
This was the year that Pure Food and Drug Act was made.
What is 1906?
This rose when people resorted to desperate measures to get food for their families.
What is the crime rate?
This led to 2.5 million people being employed in one month
What is the Civil Works Administration?
These economic policies proposed that tax breaks and benefits for corporations, would lead to benefits for the whole economy.
What are supply-side or trickle-down economics?
This was the total wealth accumulated form the 4 Captains of Industry (closest answer wins).
What is $928,1 BILLION?
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This was run by veterans because President hoover wouldn't take action.
What is the Bonus Army March?
The Old Age Revolving Pension made these people retire.
Who are anyone over the age of sixty.
This is a steady increase in cost when a group borrows money.
What is interest?