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The Gilded Age: In and Out

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    Described as a time marked by gross income inequality and corrupt practices by corporations and abuse of workers, the term "Gilded Age" was coined by what writer?
    Upton Sinclair
    Andrew Carnegie
    Mark Twian
    Henry George
  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    William Graham Sumner was a popular researcher and writer during the Gilded Age.  He believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because, "...a drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be..."  That is, Sumner believed that we all had a certin station or place that was rodained and could not be changed.  This Gilded Age philosophy was called which of the following?
    Evolution
    Monetary Policy
    Social Darwinism
    Welfare Capitalism
  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?
    Upton Sinclair
    Ida Tarbell
    Ida Wells
    Jacob Riis
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