Vocabulary
When a single company has to much control over an industry...
Monopoly
President whose government was known for corruption...
Bonus: What number president were they?
Ulysses S. Grant
Bonus: 18th president
What are the 4 common raw materials in America...
Iron, coal, timber, oil
Who surrended to who at the end of the Civil War?
General E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysess Grant
A type of business that processes raw materials in factories...
This man dominated the oil industry...
Bonus: If you know his middle name
John D. Rockefeller
Bonus: Davison
Period of thriving business after the Civil War...
Bonus: Why is it called this?
The Gilded Age
Bonus: Gilded means covered in gold. It was called this as it was a time of wealth in America.
11 states that seceded from the Confederacy were known as...
The Confederacy
To be cleansed of impurities...
Refined
Immigrant who made a fortune in steel...
Bonus: Where was he from...
Andrew Carnegie
Bonus: Scotland (he was a Scottish immigrant)
Carnegie used his money to build these...
Libraries
When was the War of 1812?
1812
Someone who gives their wealth away...
Philanthropist
Rockefeller's company...
Standard Oil
Transcontinental Railway
What happened at the San Jacinto River...
The Texians surprised and captured Santa Anna.
Nickname for the wealthy owners of industry...
A railroad owner who crossed into Canada and kidnapped an investor...
Jay Gould
A golden railroad spike was driven here...
Promontory Point, Utah
Who was the president at the Era of Good Feelings and was the 5th president of the United States.
James Monroe