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- 1. 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
- 2. Multiple Choice
The Dawes Severalty Act dealt with which group in America?
Indians (Native Americans)
Immigrants
Chinese
Settlers
- 3. 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
- 4. Multiple Choice
Civil Service Reform was a response to what?
Political Machines and the Spoils System
Chinese Immigrants
Indians (Native Americans)
The need to regulate State Governments
- 5. Multiple Choice
Changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to adopt Christianity, requiring them to learn English, etc. These are all examples of what pushed on many Immigrants, but especially the Indians (Native Americans)?
Assimilation
Nativism
Protectionism
Temperance
- 6. Multiple Choice
The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.
Entrepreneurs
Nativists
Philanthropists
Populists
- 7. 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
- 8. 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
- 9. 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
- 10. Multiple Choice
What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?
Immigrants
The Poor
Indians (Native Americans)
Former Slaves
- 11. Multiple Choice
Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?
Urbanization
Industrialization
Nativism
Assimilation
- 12. 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
- 13. Multiple Choice
Roads, skyscrapers, prisons, sewers, schools, railroads, etc, are all examples of what?
Infrastructure
Rural Expansion
Assimilation
Nativism
- 14. 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
- 15. Multiple Choice
What region of the US had the greatest Urban Growth during the Gilded Age? (Late 1800s)
Northeast
Northwest
Southeast
Southwest
- 16. Multiple Choice
The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?
Rural areas to Urban areas
Urban areas to Rural areas
- 17. Multiple Choice
What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
Marbury v Madison
Roe v Wade
- 18. Multiple Choice
All of the following groups struggled for civil rights during the Gilded Age except?
Mexican Americans
African Americans
Immigrants
Women
- 19. Multiple Choice
Who is most associated with political machines in New York City?
"Boss" Tweed
John Rockefeller
Jane Adams
Andrew Carnegie
- 20. 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
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