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- 1. Multiple ChoiceThis period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.World War IProgressive EraGilded ageRoaring Twenties
- 2. Multiple Choicein 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.Nativist ActMexican Reparition ActDawes ActChinese Exclusion Act
- 3. Multiple ChoiceDuring the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....PhilanthropyLabor UnionsPolitical BossesCredit Unions
- 4. Multiple ChoiceDuring the 19th and early 20th century, These men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during election?political partiesEl Chapopolitical bossesrepublican party
- 5. Multiple ChoiceThe Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.direct votingcivil service reformpolitical machinescivil labor unions
- 6. Multiple ChoiceMany Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.DemocratsRepublicansDonald TrumpNativists
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThis is the term for immigrants that is the process for turning and teaching immigrants about the culture and government of the United States.AmericanizationNativismAmericanMexiCAN
- 8. Multiple ChoiceOne Weapon that was used to put Boss Tweed, leader of New York City's infamous Tweed Ring, in jail wasfederal income tax evasion chargesthe cartoons of political satirist Thomas Nastthe RICO racketeering act.New York City's ethics laws
- 9. Multiple ChoiceJames Garfield was assassinatedas a result of his service in the Civil Warbecause he was a Stalwart Republicanbecause he opposed Civil Service reformby a deranged, disappointed office seeker
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe Pendleton Act required appointees to public office totake a competitive exampresent a written recommendation from a congressman or senatoragree to make financial contributions to their political partypledge independence from either major party
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt. For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.DaleyGrantTildenTweed
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?credit mobilierpolitical machinecorrected democracyelectoral politics
- 13. Multiple ChoiceCongressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusiv practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco...Sherman Antitrust ActCeller-Kefauver ActClayton Antitrust ActInterstate Commerce Act
- 14. Multiple ChoiceIn 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?Margaret SangerJane AddamsElizabeth Cady StantonSusan B. Anthony
- 15. Multiple ChoiceIn 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 SinclairIda TarbellIda WellsJacob Riis
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWilliam 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?EvolutionMonetary PolicySocial DarwinismWelfare Capitalism
- 17. Multiple ChoiceHaymarket, Homestead, and Pullman werewealthy industrialists of the late 1800sleaders of labor unionsnotorious industrial strikeshorizontally consolidated companies
- 18. Multiple Choicebelieved in giving his money back under his 'Gospel of Welath" policyAndrew CarnegieJohn RockefellerEugene DebsCornelius Vanderbilt
- 19. Multiple Choicein 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.Nativist ActMexican Reparition ActDawes ActChinese Exclusion Act
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe innovation of this form of transportation, helped sparked the U.S. economy, helping create a major national market.ShipsRailroadsAutomobilesHorse and Buggy
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