Inventions
GILDED AGE
VILLAINS
Gilded Age Misc. 1
Progressive Era (Random) x2
Gilded Age Misc. 2
x2 Points
100

Created the lightbulb

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

The ruthless tactics they used to destroy their competition and methods used to keep workers' wages low.

Captains of Industry OR robber barons

100

This was the name of a derogatory term applied to wealthy industrialists who were seen as the greedy rich people.

Robber Barrons

100

Investigative reporters, writers, and social scientists exposed the industrial and governmental corruption

Muckrakers

100

What is this political cartoon expressing? Teacher judges the student answer.

Did you get it? 

100

This Gilded Age industrial owners encouraged labor unions. (True or False)

What is False?

200

This allowed for long-distance communication to happen rapidly (used morse code).

What is the telegraph?

200

This person controlled the Railroad Industry.

Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?

200

This was the term applied to wealthy industry owners who were seen as doing good for society.

What are Captains of Industry?

200

___________ agreed with W.E.B. that African Americans should seek their civil rights, but he disagreed on how they should achieve those rights.

Booker T. Washington

200

This Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson legalized discrimination--- stating, separate but ____.

What is Equal?

200

Who is responsible for this...

Who is Thomas Edison?

300

Alexander Graham Bell invented the________, allowing people to communicate through voice for the first time in America.

What is the telephone

300

This person controlled the steel industry.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

300

This Gilded Age law provided federal land to Western settlers at no cost (160 acres)

What is the Homestead Act?

300

“Pure Food & Drug Act”

law that required foods and drugs to be pure and accurately labeled

300

Many of these circulated in newspapers during the Gilded Age: Drawings depicting messages about businesses/government/etc.

What are political cartoons?

300

This process created steel cheaper and quicker (brought over from England).

What is the Bessemer Process?
400
Name an immigrant group that worked on the Transcontinental Railroad.

Who are the Irish or the Chinese?

400
Person controlled the Oil Industry.

Who is John D. Rockefeller?

400

a big business owned by many shareholders

what is a corporation?

400

1896 Election – Populists supported_____________________ for President due to his “Cross of Gold” speech in which he supported the unlimited coinage of silver, instead of gold

William Jennings Bryan

400

________ was America's first big business aiding in transportation.

What are railroads?

400
Term used to describe buying similar companies to reduce competition (______ Integration)
What is Horizontal Integration?
500

This type of engine powered trains and ships.

What is the steam engine?

500
This person controlled the banking/finance industry.

Who is J.P. Morgan?

500
Corporations were led by a group called a Board of ______.

what are Trustees?

500

Prohibited railroads from charging more for short hauls than long hauls over the same route

What is the Interstate Commerce Act?

500

Federal law aimed at stopping monopolies and trustsfrom engaging in unfair practices.

Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

500

Term used to describe buying companies in order to gain materials or transportation for products.

What is Vertical Integration?

600

Had a significant impact on the economic, cultural, and social development of the Western United States by connecting it to the east?

What is the (Transcontinental) Railroad?

600

This Gilded Age industry owner is known as the father of philanthropy as well as a successful steel businessman.

Who is Andrew Carnegie?

600

Belief that natural competition weeds out the weak and allows the strong to survive.

What is Social Darwinism?

600

Identify these Progressive Presidents in order. Left to right.

Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, William Howard Taft

600

Term for a person who gives money to charities. Think of Carnegie.

What is a Philanthropist?

600
acronym R.O.S.E.
What are Railroads, Oil, Steel, and Electricity?