Industry Influence

Students match major Gilded Age companies, founders, and business practices to understand how large corporations gained power. By connecting companies to key figures and industrial strategies, learners explore concepts such as vertical and horizontal integration. After completing the matching activity, they answer analysis questions that require them to interpret the broader impacts of monopolies and large business combinations. The worksheet strengthens students’ understanding of economic power, competition, and consumer choice during the Industrialization era. It also builds students’ ability to apply historical evidence in short written responses.

Curriculum Matched Skills

Social Studies – Industrialization, Monopolies, and Big Business

Social Studies – Economic Systems and Business Practices

English Language Arts – Analytical Writing Using Textual Evidence

Social Studies – Historical Cause and Effect

This worksheet is part of our Industrialization and the Gilded Age Worksheets collection.