Robber Barons
This is where there is sole corporate control over an industry.
What is a monopoly?
This is the process by which people being to move to large cities.
What is urbanization?
What was the Gilded Age?
This company was founded by a robber baron who grew up in Ohio, and found success due to its refining techniques.
What is Standard Oil?
This modern day car company was founded during the period.
What is Ford Motor Company?
This practice became widespread during the era due to the expansion of the bureaucracy.
What is bribery/corruption?
This term refers to the bridges, railroads, and buildings built during the time.
What is infrastructure?
This period following the Civil War led to the Gilded Age.
What is Reconstruction?
Andrew Carnegie wrote this book about philanthropy.
What is the Gospel of Wealth?
This term refers to the idea that any person can make a fortune by their own hard work.
What is the American Dream?
This company overcharged the US government for the Transcontinental Railroad and paid off Congressional representatives and government agents.
This process means controlling the manufacturing process from raw material to complete product.
What is vertical integration?
This early industrial invention helped power machines.
What is the steam engine?
This robber baron founded US Steel.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
What are Google and Facebook?
This event began when police attacked unionists after the unionists threw a bomb at them in Chicago.
What was the Haymarket Affair?
Andrew Carnegie helped found ~2500 libraries in this state.
What is New York?
This state had a gold rush in 1849.
This robber baron, nicknamed "the Commodore", built lots of railroads and founded an eponymous university in Tennessee.
Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The monopolies built by robber barons led to this act passed by Congress in 1890.
What is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
This man was Grant's Vice President and was implicated in the Whiskey Ring Scandal.
Who was Schuyler Colfax?
This robber baron gave funds to found the University of Chicago.
Who is John D Rockefeller?
This number was the number below USA on the stamp on the Context slide.
This robber baron named a university in California after his deceased son.
Who is Leland Stanford?
These modern-day companies are the direct successors of Standard Oil. (Name 2 of them.)
What are Chevron, Exxon Mobil, BP, and Marathon?