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- 1. Multiple Choice
The picture shows which negative effect of industrialization?High wages were earnedShort working hoursSafe working conditionsChild labor was used - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich labor union was founded in response to the negative effects of industrialization?Temperance UnionSuffrage MovementAmerican Federation of LaborUnion of Industrial Workers
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich provided an absolute 10-year moratorium on Chinese labor immigration?Political MachineChinese Exclusion ActChinese Inclusion ActOrganized labor
- 4. Multiple ChoiceJohn D. Rockefeller was a captain of which industry?OilBankingSteelAutomobile
- 5. Multiple ChoiceJ.P. Morgan was a captain of which industry?RailroadsSteelBankingOil
- 6. Multiple Choice
What does philanthropy mean?
generously donating money to good causes
future generations; your kid's kids
being wealthy and leaving all of your money to 1 son
a place where different nationalities and religions are mixed together
- 7. Multiple Choice
What is this a picture of?
tenements
melting pot
skyscrapers
plantations
- 8. Multiple Choice
Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
JP Morgan
- 9. Multiple Choice
A person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices such as Vanderbilt and Carnegie was called a ?
Robber Baron
Slum Lord
Proprietor
Land Lord
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which word means a complete ownership or control of the entire supply of goods or a service in a certain market?
monopoly
industry
colony
philanthropy
- 11. Multiple Choice
Click on all of the new innovations and inventions being used during The Gilded Age.
telephones and electric lighting
automobiles
horse and buggy
motion pictures (movies)
Bessemer steel
- 12. Multiple Choice
A Scottish immigrant who led the enormous expansion of the steel industry.
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 13. Multiple Choice
What is something people who belong to a Union might do?
go on strike
call on immigrants to take your job
blacklist you
fight for an 8 hour work day
fight for better wages and working conditions
- 14. Multiple Choice
During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the U.S. found work as ?
Educated professionals
Factory workers
Scientists
Lawyers
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which island did European immigrants register to live in in the U.S.?
Ellis
Angel
Galveston
Long
- 16. Multiple Choice
A union leader who ran for President of the United States five times as a Socialist Party candidate.
Eugene V. Debs
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
Booker T. Washington
- 17. Multiple Choice
Rockefeller made his own barrels for the oil he mined. This is an example of getting rich by _________________ integration.
vertical
horizontal
parallel
bi-lateral
- 18. Multiple Choice
What idea does this image represent?
Slums
Melting Pot
Racism
Chocolate Fondue
- 19. Multiple Choice
During the Gilded Age, more people were moving to the ___________ than ever before.
cities
farms
- 20. Multiple Choice
Mark Twain labeled the late 1800's the "Gilded Age" to describe the ?
end of the practice of slavery
extremes between wealth and poverty
absence of international conflict
achievements in the labor movement
- 21. Multiple Choice
Robber barons lived in filthy, overcrowded apartments with one toilet per floor.
True
False
- 22. Multiple Choice
What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?
Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside
Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside
- 23. Multiple Choice
Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?
The Immigrants and the Poor
The Immigrants and Big Businesses
The Poor and the Chinese
The Chinese and the Big Businesses
- 24. Multiple Choice
Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe
Nativists
Populists
Philanthropists
Social Workers
- 25. Multiple Choice
Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?
Women and children had to become wage earners
Women and children became business owners
Women and children became more educated
Women and children became leaders of organized labor
- 26. Multiple Choice
The Homestead Act caused a shift in population to move from where to where?
East Coast to West Coast
West Coast to East Coast
- 27. Multiple Choice
What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?
Immigrants
The Poor
Indians (Native Americans)
Former Slaves
- 28. Multiple Choice
Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?
Urbanization
Industrialization
Nativism
Assimilation
- 29. Multiple Choice
Declining wages and a rise unemployment on the west coast led to what piece of legislation?
Chinese Exclusion Act
Dawes Act
Homestead Act
Pendleton Act of 1883
- 30. Multiple Choice
How did Political Machines use Infrastructure to gain power and manipulate Immigrants?
Got them to work on those projects in exchange for votes
Got them to work on those projects in exchange for money
Kept them from getting those jobs
- 31. Multiple Choice
What region of the US had the greatest Urban Growth during the Gilded Age? (Late 1800s)
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
- 32. Multiple Choice
Who is most associated with political machines in New York City?
"Boss" Tweed
John Rockefeller
Jane Adams
Andrew Carnegie
- 33. Multiple Choice
What was the main source of power in big city governments during the Gilded Age?
Political Machines
Industrial Capitalists
Robber Barons
Labor Leaders
- 34. Multiple Choice
Rockefeller's company was named...
Chevron
Sunoco
National Oil
Standard Oil
- 35. Multiple Choice
Cornelius Vanderbilt made his fortune in...
Railroads
Oil
Steel
Finance
- 36. Multiple Choice
The Haymarket Square Riot of 1886 was in...
Philadelphia
New York
Detroit
Chicago
- 37. Multiple Choice
The workers who were on strike at Haymarket Square wanted...
a 6 hour day.
an 8 hour day.
a 10 hour day.
a 12 hour day.
- 38. Multiple Choice
The leaders of the workers at Haymarket Square were immigrants from...
Germany.
Russia.
France.
Hungary.
- 39. Multiple Choice
The Haymarket Square Riot led to a national wave of xenophobia. Xenophobia is a fear of...
heights.
violence.
unions.
foreigners.
- 40. Multiple Choice
Rockefeller and Vanderbilt came to control nearly everything in the railroad and oil industries. As a result, they were able to set prices high for their products and services. Control over an entire industry is known as having a ....
integration.
oligarchy.
monopoly.
- 41. Multiple Choice
When workers unite and join together to negotiate with their boss for higher wages and better conditions, they have formed a ...
union.
trade deal.
strike.
communist organization.
- 42. Multiple Choice
Carnegie Steel Company was located in which Pennsylvania city?
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Scranton
Pittsburgh
- 43. Multiple Choice
The Pullman Strike in Chicago occurred after the company...
...cut worker wages.
...increased health care benefits.
...promised to improve working conditions.
- 44. Multiple Choice
Following the Pullman Strike, the American public mostly...
blamed the striking workers for the violence.
blamed the Pullman Company for the violence.
blamed the National Guard for the violence.
- 45. Multiple Choice
During the Gilded Age, American farmers struggled to make a living. The farmers blamed all of the following, except ____________, for their financial struggles.
bankers
railroad companies
foreign imports
- 46. Multiple Choice
In the 1870's and 1880's, American farmers began to join together. They wanted fair treatment from banks and the railroads. Which was not an organization of farmers for farmers?
National Labor Relations Board
National Grange
Farmers Alliance
- 47. Multiple Choice
By the 1890's, a new political party emerged. This party was made up largely of farmers and workers. It sought to represent "the people" as opposed to the banks, the railroads, and the wealthy. This new party was known as the _______________________.
Green Party
Populist Party
Labor Party
- 48. Multiple Choice
What years are called the Gilded Age?
1870-1910
1825-1832
1800-1900
1865-1798
- 49. Multiple ChoiceWhich group believed in survival of the fittest and people were naturally selected to succeed?social darwinistpolitical bossesnativistpolitical machines
- 50. Multiple Choice
During the Gilded Age came the rise of monopolies which were-
government bargains with organized crime
businesses so large and powerful they had no competition
large donation from rich individuals to public charities
corrupt political engines which controlled city governments
- 51. Multiple Choice
Which religion did many New Immigrants have which, like the Irish, made Americans afraid of them?
Judaism
Islam
Catholicism
Anglicanism
- 52. Multiple Choice
Many immigrants and poor individuals in cities lived in single rooms like this called-
Motels
Alleys
Tenements
Cellars
- 53. Multiple Choice
Which of these best explains why many immigrants came to the United States during the Gilded Age?
They were imported as forced labor for infrastructure projects
They were brought in to boost a declining population
They were drawn in by the offer of free land from the Homestead Act
They saw opportunity for a better life for themselves and their children
- 54. Multiple Choice
His invention the light bulb allowed for factories to stay open longer.
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Bessemer
Cornelius Vanderbilt
- 55. Multiple Choice
How did the Bessemer process allow cities to grow rapidly?
It allowed factories to stay open longer
It allowed for instant long-distance communication
It allowed for steel to be made quickly
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