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Innovations and Monopolies of the Gilded Age

Explore key figures, inventions, and socio-political movements that shaped the Gilded Age in America, including industrial monopolies, technological breakthroughs, labor struggles, and societal changes.

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Innovations and Monopolies of the Gilded Age

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  1. Type Topic in here!

  2. Question 1 - 10 • He created an oil monopoly?

  3. Answer 1 – 10 • John D. Rockefeller

  4. Question 1 - 20 • He created a steel monopoly.

  5. Answer 1 – 20 • Andrew Carnegie

  6. Question 1 - 30 • He drilled the first oil well at Titusville, Pennsylvania.

  7. Answer 1 – 30 • Edwin L. Drake

  8. Question 1 - 40 • The first commercial use for petroleum was _________ for lighting.

  9. Answer 1 – 40 • Kerosene

  10. Question 1 - 50 • This process made making steel cheap and fast.

  11. Answer 1 – 50 • Bessemer

  12. Question 2 - 10 • Thomas Edison made possible the electric light bulb by creating the ___________

  13. Answer 2 – 10 • Carbon filament

  14. Question 2 - 20 • He invented the telephone.

  15. Answer 2 – 20 • Alexander Graham Bell

  16. Question 2 - 30 • They invented the airplane

  17. Answer 2 – 30 • Orville and Wilber Wright

  18. Question 2 - 40 • This invention open clerical jobs to women.

  19. Answer 2 – 40 • typewriter

  20. Question 2 - 50 • He argued that A.C. electricity was the best way to deliver power to consumers.

  21. Answer 2 – 50 • Nikola Tesla

  22. Question 3 - 10 • Political party that fought for workers and farmers.

  23. Answer 3 – 10 • Populists

  24. Question 3 - 20 • Organization of workers that fought for better working conditions and wages

  25. Answer 3 – 20 • Union

  26. Question 3 - 30 • The strike at this Carnegie steel factory resulted in a battle between workers and Pinkerton agents.

  27. Answer 3 – 30 • Homestead

  28. Question 3 - 40 • The nation’s first farm organization

  29. Answer 3 – 40 • The Grange

  30. Question 3 - 50 • Farmers wanted the government increase the money circulation by ______________

  31. Answer 3 – 50 • Backing the currency with silver, as well as gold.

  32. Question 4 - 10 • Crowded, rundown, apartment buildings

  33. Answer 4 – 10 • Tenements

  34. Question 4 - 20 • His Chicago department store was a “consumer palace”

  35. Answer 4 – 20 • Marshall Fields

  36. Question 4 - 30 • Political boss who ran the notorious Tammany Hall.

  37. Answer 4 – 30 • Boss Tweed

  38. Question 4 - 40 • Laws that “legally” segregated African-Americans.

  39. Answer 4 – 40 • Jim Crow

  40. Question 4 - 50 • Belief that Christians should help the poor.

  41. Answer 4 – 50 • Social Gospel

  42. Question 5 - 10 • Belief that economic success was determined by a person or company’s “fitness”

  43. Answer 5 – 10 • Social Dawinism

  44. Question 5 - 20 • Entry point for millions of immigrants during the Gilded Age.

  45. Answer 5 – 20 • Ellis Island

  46. Question 5 - 30 • Term for an economic risk-taker

  47. Answer 5 – 30 • Entrepreneur

  48. Question 5 - 40 • Immigrant children were taught English and U.S. History in schools to _____________ them.

  49. Answer 5 – 40 • Americanize

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