Industrialization & Gilded Age Review

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What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

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Electricity

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What innovation contributed to the growth of a national market in the United States? Options: Railroads, Telephone, Dry farming, Sewing machine

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Railroads

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Which idea summarizes the political corruption in the Gilded Age? Options: Many Americans moved west to farm, Native Americans were placed on Reservations, The discovery of Gold increased western migration, Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics

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Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics

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What is one positive about the laissez-faire politics?

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Entrepreneurs started businesses without government interference

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Who would not be considered a robber baron? Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller

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Samuel Gompers

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What factor most led to the growth of the steel industry?

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the Bessemer Process

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Who accepted bribes in return for favors?

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Political bosses

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What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

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By joining labor unions

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What was one positive of wealthy industrialists? Options: Paying their workers low wages, Philanthropic donations to charity, Supporting social darwinism, Working with political machines

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Philanthropic donations to charity

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Which Captain of Industry used a process which made steel more affordable and profitable?

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Andrew Carnegie