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- 1. Multiple Choice
Who of the following represented the American notion that through hard work, even a poor immigrant could become tremendously successful?
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Jay Cooke
Thomas Edison
- 2. Multiple Choice
As American industry expanded in the late nineteenth century, its energy source shifted from
electric to steam
water to coal
coal to iron
steam to water
- 3. Multiple Choice
Why did so few African American men hold factory jobs in the US in 1890?
there were almost no factories in the South, where the majority of African Americans lived at that time
white-dominated labor unions generally refused to allow blacks to join and seek industrial employment
factory owners could satisfy labor needs with immigrant workers, so they rejected most black applicants
black workers intensely disliked factory work and preferred agricultural or casual urban labor
- 4. Multiple Choice
During the 1800s, an adult male immigrant from which of the following locations would most likely be a skilled worker?
Poland
Wales
Italy
Greece
- 5. Multiple ChoiceDuring the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.PhilanthropyLabor UnionsPolitical BossesCredit Unions
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWilliam Graham Sumner, a researcher during the Gilded Age, believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because people had a certain place that could not be changed. This philosophy was called...EvolutionMonetary PolicySocial DarwinismWelfare Capitalism
- 7. Multiple Choice
Based on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?The federal government was placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment. - 8. Multiple ChoiceWhich of these best describes life in a turn of the century tenement?Very crowdedSpreading sickness and diseaseNo windows, heat, or plumbingAll of the above
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the steelworkers do when Henry Clay Frick tried to bring in replacement workers?Barricaded the millOpened their own factory in OhioPleaded to Andrew CarnegieThrew a dynamite bomb at police
- 10. Multiple ChoiceThe steel industry owed much to the inventive genius ofJay GouldHenry BessemerJ.P. MorganThomas Edison
- 11. Multiple Choice
This movement advocated for a return to traditional ways of life and challenged white dominance in society.
Ghost Dance Movement
Temperance Movement
The Pullman Strike
The People's Party
- 12. Multiple Choice
The innovation of this transportation help open up the national market
- 13. Multiple ChoiceMen such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder.geopoliticalpolitical bossesSocial DarwinismGospel of Wealth
- 14. Multiple Choice
Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.
Interstate Commerce Act
Dawes Act
Transcontinental Act
Laissez Faire Act
- 15. Multiple Choice
What 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.
Daley
Grant
Tilden
Tweed
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?credit mobilierpolitical machinecorrected democracyelectoral politics
- 17. Multiple Choice
Congressional 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 abusive practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco, etc.
Sherman Antitrust Act
Celler-Kefauver Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
Interstate Commerce Act
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat did the NAACP focus on?child laborequal rightsconservationprotection of animals
- 19. Multiple Choice
What image below best explains suffrage?
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the time period called that suggested that the U.S. appeared to be fine, but beneath the surface there was corruption and serious problems?False AmericaGilded AgeTeasing TimesErroneous Era
- 21. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?Manifest destinyMonroe DoctrineGreat AwakeningLouisiana Purchase
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich of the following explains the major drawback of mining?mining became useless as new technology replaced natural resourcesmining proved to be unprofitablemining was destructive to the natural environmentmining did not provide any jobs for local residents
- 23. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the effect of the Transcontinental Railroad?Became a more efficient form of transportation for settlersIncreased trade between the east and west and boosted the economyPolluted the air and the natural environmentAll of the above
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhat invention helped prevent cattle from escaping?bean pickerbarbed wiresteel plowwindmills
- 25. Multiple Choice
What happened at Sand Creek in 1864?
The Navajo started their "Long Walk."
The US Army killed many Native Americans.
Native Americans gave up their fight for lands.
Native Americans killed many settlers.
- 26. Multiple Choice
Where were General George Custer and his men killed?
Little Bighorn
Crazy Horse
Sand Creek
Wounded Knee
- 27. Multiple ChoiceHow did the passage of the Dawes Act impact Native Americans?It started a series of Indian Wars with massive casualties on the Great PlainsIt attempted to assimilate them into mainstream culture by allocating lands to individual Indians.Retention of original tribal territory occurred through a peace treaty with the U.S. Army.It supported their existing cultural tribal traditions and customs
- 28. Multiple Choice
Name the tribe of Sitting Bull that fought against Western settlers and later started the Ghost Dance Tradition
Cheyenne
Sioux
Apache
Nez Perce
- 29. Multiple Choice
Perfected the incandescent light bulb
Edwin L. Drake
Henry Bessemer
Thomas Alva Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
- 30. Multiple Choice
Which of the following did Social Darwinism discourage?
hard work
industrialization
government regulation
accumulation of wealth
- 31. Multiple Choice
Why were scabs unpopular with striking workers during the late 1800s?
They were socialists.
They were federal troops.
They were part of management.
They were workers used to break strikes.
- 32. Multiple Choice
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 33. Multiple Choice
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the railroad industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 34. Multiple Choice
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the finance industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 35. Multiple Choice
Millionaire tycoon who made his riches in the oil industry
Andrew Carnegie
J.D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 36. Multiple Choice
Why did President Lincoln and Congress wish to provide inexpensive homesteads to the public?
For jobs
To visit their families
To help expand the country
For the climate change
- 37. Multiple Choice
What is the name of the place that was the gateway for over 12 million immigrants to the U.S. as the United States' busiest immigrant inspection station? It's located in New York.
Hull House
Ellis Island
Pullman House
Staten Island
- 38. Multiple Choice
What is the name of this machine that made large productions of steel and was inexpensive?
Steel
Cotton Gin
Steel Maker
Bessemer Process
- 39. Multiple Choice
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Edison
Alexander Wright
- 40. Multiple Choice
Who invented the first plane?
Bessemer Brothers
Rockefeller Brothers
Right Brothers
Wright Brothers
- 41. Multiple ChoiceAreas of land set aside for Native Americansnomadicsodbustershomesteadreservations
- 42. Multiple ChoiceA route that connected the Atlantic and Pacific coastsnomadictranscontinentalsoonersvaqueros
- 43. Multiple ChoiceEager settlers who claimed the best land in Oklahomanomadictranscontinentalsoonersvaqueros
- 44. Multiple Choice
Carnegie made a fortune by mastering the concept of
philanthropy
vertical integration
horizontal integration
plausible deniability
- 45. Multiple Choice
Rockefeller made a fortune by utilizing
vertical integration
horizontal integration
graft
strikes
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