Gilded Age Lesson 2

Gilded Age

Multiple Choice

What is the best way for a corporation to try to MONOPOLIZE an industry?

• Acquire competitors and control supply chains.
• Limit production to create artificial scarcity.
• Focus solely on advertising without any acquisitions.
• Increase prices to drive out competition.

Multiple Choice

What's the main idea of this political cartoon?

• Big business was not powerful enough.

• Big business had too much control over elected leaders.

• Big business can better serve the American people than the Senate.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of this political cartoon?

• Rockefeller worked cooperatively with other national interests.

• Rockefeller was trying to gain control over national government.

• Rockefeller was under the control of the national government.

Poll

Would you characterize industrial leaders like Rockefeller and Carnegie as titans/ captains of industry or robber barons?

• Captains of Industry

• Robber Barons

Multiple Choice

“Of every thousand dollars spent in so-called charity today, it is probable that nine hundred and fifty dollars is unwisely spent.…The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise—free libraries, parks, and means of recreation, by which men are helped in body and mind.…The laws of accumulation will be left free, the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire will be but a trustee for the poor.…The best minds will thus have reached a stage in the development of the race in which it is clearly seen there is no mode of disposing of surplus wealth creditable to thoughtful and earnest men into whose hands it flows, save by using it year by year for the general good.”

―Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” 1889

The view of the poor in the quote above is most consistent with the ideology of

• Social Gospel

• Populist Party

• Social Darwinism

• Utopianism

Multiple Choice

What was the primary entry point for the large wave of European immigration around the turn of the 20th century?

• Angel Island

• Ellis Island

• border with Canada

• border with Mexico

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of this political cartoon?

• Immigrants bring "baggage" that is detrimental to American society.

• Immigrants are hard working and add to the productivity and diverse culture of the US.

• The Statue of Liberty promises welcome to immigrants, because the US is a nation of immigrants.

Multiple Choice

“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be… suspended; and during such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese laborer to come, or having so come after the expiration of said ninety days to remain within the United States.

SEC. 2. That the master of any vessel who shall knowingly bring within the United States on such vessel, and land or permit to be landed, any Chinese laborer, from any foreign port or place, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such Chinese laborer so brought, and maybe also imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year….

SEC. 14. That hereafter no State court or court of the United States shall admit Chinese to citizenship; and all laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC.15. That the words "Chinese laborers", wherever used in this act shall be construed to mean both skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining.”

―Forty-Seventh U.S. Congress, Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

The above legislation was a direct development of which of the following?

• A desire to balance the numbers of ethnicities immigrating into the US

• The end of an era of railroad construction leading large numbers of unemployed Chinese workers to spread across the nation

• A rapid growth in Chinese immigrant population

• Political pressure arising from strong anti-Chinese nativist sentiments in the West

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT an important technological development of the 19th century?

• telegraph

• telephone

• motion picture camera

• television

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an important tactic used by labor unions?

• strike

• suppressing protest

• ending collective bargaining

Multiple Choice

Who did NOT build the railroads?

• Irish Immigrants

• Chinese Immigrants

• Ellis Island Immigrants

Multiple Choice

What was the effect of the Wounded Knee Massacre?

• fueled more armed resistance from Native Americans

• end of armed Native American resistance

• additional battles with Plains Indians in the west

• Native groups were enthusiastic to assimilate and abandon aspect of culture