Gilded Age

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Which of the following is a characteristic of the Gilded Age? people began moving to rural areas to farm acres of cotton and grain, the political process was opened up to citizens of different ethnicities and social class, America expanded westward to accomplish its goal of Manifest Destiny, the government passed favorable laws to help the growth of big business

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the government passed favorable laws to help the growth of big business

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The Gilded Age is infamous for ____________.

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businessmen bribing government officials

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Thomas Edison's invention of the light bulb is significant because ___

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it enabled factory workers to work longer hours resulting in greater production of goods

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During the Gilded Age, there was a notable increase in federal support for ___

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the growth of big business

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An entrepreneur is someone who ____

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risks their money to start a business with the hopes of making a profit

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The impact of the invention of the telephone was that ___

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it allowed for a more efficient way to communicate over greater distances

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What national law gave the federal government more power over the railroads?

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Interstate Commerce Act

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Nativists in California in the 1880s would most likely have supported the--

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passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act

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How did the invention of steel farm tools, such as the steel plow, impact rural areas?

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New inventions led to the loss of jobs so people moved from rural areas to urban areas.

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What is philanthropy?

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Donate money to good causes