Gilded Age Notes

Multiple Choice

What does this image say about why workers looked up to political bosses?

• political bosses

• political bosses

• political bosses threw large parties so the immigrants felt welcome in the US

• political bosses helped immigrants find jobs and handed out other favors

Open Ended

Define the Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism --look it up and type it into your own words

Multiple Choice

Which group believed in survival of the fittest and people were naturally selected to succeed?

• social darwinist
• political bosses
• nativist
• political machines

Multiple Choice

completed in 1869 at Promontory Point, Utah making it possible to travel by land to California

• Transcontinental Railroad
• Interstate Highway
• Route 66
• Henry Ford's Model T

Multiple Choice

What was the main source of power in big city governments during the Gilded Age?

• Political Machines

• Industrial Capitalists

• Robber Barons

• Labor Leaders

Multiple Choice

This law passed by President Abraham Lincoln gave western settlers 160 acres & $10 to move west. However, the settlers must live on the land for a minimum of 5 years:

• Homestead Act

• Stamp Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Multiple Choice

Based on this poster, which is an accurate statement?

• Immigrants and Natives were encouraged to learn and to speak English

• Granite City had laws prohibiting immigrants from moving there

• The people in the poster were native-born Americans

• Granite City encourged diversity in its immigrant population

Draw

Draw something that the invention of steel made it possible to build.

Multiple Choice

What industry did John D Rockefeller create a monopoly in?

• Oil Refineries

• Automobiles

• Telephones

• Steel

Multiple Choice

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Multiple Choice

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Dawes Act
• Transcontiental Act
• Laizzez Faire Act 

Multiple Choice

Which factor contributed most to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

• Lack of mining jobs

• Economic war in Asia

• Rise of nativism

• Overcrowded neighborhoods

Multiple Choice

Which of the following occurred during the Gilded Age as a result of the rapid industrialization of the U.S.?

• Social and economic class divisions began to disappear.

• Union membership increased as workers sought better pay and conditions.

• Concerns about air pollution led to stricter environmental regulations.

• Factory owners introduced wage-equity policies for women in the workplace.