1) The owner of the Standard Oil corporation, an oil industry monopoly a) Rockefeller b) Carnegie c) Vanderbilt d) Frick e) J.P. Morgan f) Leland Stanford 2) A steel monopolist who was the main vendor of steel for businesses looking to build industrial structures in the 1890s and early 1900s a) Rockefeller b) Morgan c) Vanderbilt d) Carnegie 3) John D. Rockefeller's company that controlled more than 90% of the oil refining industry in the United States a) Pure Oil Inc. b) Standard Oil c) Carnegie Steel d) ExxonMobil 4) From a combination of Greek phrases meaning "one seller," this term refers to a business that has consolidated almost ALL of its industry under one single company a) Oligopoly b) Monopoly c) Mass Production d) Dividends 5) A collection of companies that are run by one single person or group a) Stockholder b) Trust c) Corporation d) Assembly Line 6) A company that gets money by selling "shares" of its ownership to anyone in the general public using the stock market a) Monopoly b) Trust c) Corporation d) Labor Union 7) A tiny share of ownership in a corporation a) Stock b) Charter c) Trust d) Monopoly 8) The small share of the profits that a "stockholder" gets each year a) Shares b) Dividends c) Trust d) Monopoly 9) The Sherman Anti-Trust Act a) Announced government distrust of Andrew Carnegie b) Broke up the Transcontinental Railroad c) Broke up large monopolies d) Was signed by President Grant 10) Andrew Carnegie owned coal mines, ships, railroad lines, and factories to produce his steel. This is a) Vertical Integration b) Horizontal Integration 11) John D. Rockefeller owned nearly EVERY SINGLE oil refinery in the U.S. This type of consolidation is called a) Vertical Integration b) Horizontal Integration 12) The name given to child workers who worked in the coal mines a) Breaker Boys b) Chipper Boys c) Smasher Boys d) This did not happen 13) The word "tycoon" most nearly means... a) An evil, villainous criminal b) A wealthy business leader c) A breed of Amazonian fish d) A very cool hat 14) This railroad tycoon controlled nearly all of the rail traffic in the Eastern part of the United States, from New York City to the Great Lakes Region a) Rockefeller b) Carnegie c) Vanderbilt d) Huntington 15) Even though the subject is not labeled., visual clues tell us that the subject of this cartoon is a) Vanderbilt b) Rockefeller c) Cows d) Carnegie 16) Which statement most closely describes the artist's message in the cartoon? a) Rockefeller is misunderstood and is actually a good man b) Rockefeller is too powerful and manipulative, controlling too many things that he shouldn't be c) Rockefeller was a tremendous business leader with a giant monopoly. d) Rockefeller was the BEST corporate consolidator of all time.

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