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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?
America had many organizations for immigrants to join.
America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.
It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.
- 2. Multiple Choice
The transcontinental railroad was mostly built by:
Chinese and Irish immigrants because they worked for low wages.
Americans who moved west from large cities in the east.
Indians
- 3. Multiple Choice
Which was NOT a cause of westward expansion?
The Homestead Act of 1862
mining gold and other natural resources
assimilation of American Indians
the transcontinental railroad
- 4. Multiple Choice
This was a major factor in the success of the Wheat Belt in the late 1800's:
mechanization
mining
genetic engineering
- 5. Multiple Choice
The process of blending American Indians into the rest of American culture was called:
expansionism
gilding
mechanization
assimilation
- 6. Multiple Choice
This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:
the telegraph
the Bessemer Process
the Model T
The light bulb
- 7. Multiple Choice
Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller created monopolies. What is a monopoly?
When one person or company controls a market
a board game created by Rockefeller and Carnegie
a law that gave them advantages in business
- 8. Multiple Choice
______ invented the ______, a car that was created on the assembly line and inexpensive enough for regular Americans to buy.
Alexander Graham Bell, Rolls Royce
Henry Ford, Model T
Thomas Edison, Tesla
- 9. Multiple Choice
The Dawes Act was about:
ending the "spoils system" with tests for the civil service
Making monopolies illegal
assimilation of the American Indians
- 10. Multiple Choice
Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were know as robber barons because:
they were like nobility, but they trampled on people to get rich.
they robbed trains to get rich.
they made their fortune by working through the night.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Henry Ford
Samuel Morse
- 12. Multiple Choice
The growth of cities is called:
assimilation
ruralization
mechanization
urbanization
- 13. Multiple Choice
Workers stick together to fight for better pay and working conditions. This is known as a:
trust
union
monopoly
industry
- 14. Multiple Choice
When a single group of people makes decisions for multiple companies and trade stocks, it is known as a:
stock
corporation
monopoly
trust
- 15. Multiple Choice
During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:
crowded, run down, and filthy
beautiful and new
spacious
the most expensive
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