Gilded Age Lesson

Gilded Age

Gilded Age Review

Throughout this Quizizz you will have readings or directions to watch videos over certain topics during the Gilded Age. Read or watch the videos carefully. After a few slides you will have a chance to respond to the information you just learned.

Multiple Choice

What is the Dawes Act?

• The Dawes Act is a U.S. law that aimed to assimilate Native Americans by allotting them individual land parcels.
• The Dawes Act was a military initiative to remove Native Americans from their territories.
• The Dawes Act established a federal reservation system for Native American tribes.
• The Dawes Act was a treaty that granted Native Americans full sovereignty over their lands.

Reasons for westward expansion

Multiple Choice

Why were people moving west?

• To follow the latest fashion trends.
• To find new friends and socialize.
• To escape from the cold weather in the east.
• People were moving west for land, economic opportunities, and the pursuit of wealth.

Multiple Choice

What is the homestead act?

• A program that offered financial aid for college students.
• The Homestead Act is a law that granted 160 acres of public land to settlers in the U.S.
• A law that provided free housing to urban families.
• A treaty that established national parks in the U.S.

Multiple Choice

The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor developed in response to the----

• Increased need to protect worker interests

• decreased power of political machines

• increased demand for skilled workers

• decreased profitability of the agricultural sector.

Multiple Choice

How did Carnegie contribute to civic and social life in the United States?

• By promoting spiritual and moral values in public schools

• By supporting conservation ideals in federal legislation and foreign policy

• By establishing philanthropic organizations dedicated to education and the arts

Multiple Choice

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

• the growth of big business

• involvement in foreign wars

• the acquisition of foreign territories

• increased temperance regulations

Multiple Choice

Which application of a new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?

• Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances

• light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night.

• Diesel engines were used in the production of airplanes.

• Sonar technology was used to track submarines