The Gilded Age

Industrial Revolution

Multiple Choice

The textile loom, steamboats and telegraph were inventions that characterized which industrial revolution?

• The First Industrial Revolution

• The Second Industrial Revolution

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Steel, the telephone, and assembly line were innovations that characterized which industrial revolution?

• The First Industrial Revolution

• The Second Industrial Revolution

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Rise of corporations "big business"

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Transportation was steam locomotives, railways, and steamships

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Captains of Industry revolutionize business practices

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel?

• Edwin L. Drake
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Henry Bessemer
• Thomas Edison

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Growth of the railroad networks across the country (Transcontinental Railroad)

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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machine tools began to be used in manufacturing rather than hand tools

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Numerous inventions were created as a result of the Free-Market economy

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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"Robber barons" was a name given to corrupt big business owners.

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Laissez-faire economic policy- no government regulations

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Textile industries were created

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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This time period is known as the Gilded Age. It was a period of economic boom and riddled with political corruption and greed

• First Industrial Revolution

• Second Industrial Revolution

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Invented the telephone

• Alexander the Great

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Alex Trebek

• Alex King

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Bessemer Process

• system in which each nation is equal in strength

• A competition between nations

• Cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850

• A truce or agreement to end hostilities

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What is a monopoly?

• A type of economic policy

• A government-run industry

• A single entity controlling an entire industry or market

• A popular board game

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Who was known for streamlining the oil industry?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

• J.P. Morgan

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What was a downside of monopolies during the Gilded Age?

• Reduced competition

• More job opportunities

• Lower product prices

• Increased innovation

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which type of business practice would monopoly leaders support? 

• formation of trusts

• government control of industry

• competition among many businesses

• increased wages and hours for laborers

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Lewis Howard Latimer

• Multiplex telegraph

• Map creator who introduced the usage of lines of longitude and latitude

• Inventor of the AC

• New process for making carbon filaments in lightbulbs

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Famous African American Entrepreneur who created a haircare line leading to her becoming the first self-made female millionaire in America

• Sarah Goode

• Josephine Cochran

• Madame C J Walker

• Carly A. Williams

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Granville Wood, inventor of

• Cable cords

• multiplex telegram

• morse code

• Aerosol hairspray

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Which economic system can be categorized by a "hands-off" government policy?

• unionism

• Captalism

• Communism

• Socialism

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Which term BEST describes the United States government's policies towards Big Business during the Gilded Age?

• Regulatory

• Mercantilist

• Laissez-faire

• Progressive

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The Sherman Anti-trust Act

• provided civil service reform

• prevented monopolies

• give trusts advantage over other business

• gave free land

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Which economic concept is best illustrated by the cartoon?

• Supply and demand

• mercantilism

• monopoly

• trade

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Attitude the government had toward big business during the late 1800s. "hands off"

• Laissez Faire
• Monopoly
• Trust
• Social Darwinism

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Created by Robber Barons to get around new monopolies rules and regulations.

• Trust
• Monopolies
• Sherman Anti Trust Act
• Corporation Mergers

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_____________ Integration takes place when one company owns all of the steps in the manufacturing process (from top to bottom).

• Vertical

• Horizontal

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______________ Integration takes place when a company buys out all of their competitors.

• Vertical

• Horizontal

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____________________ owned every step of the process, from sourcing raw materials to shipping to processing, etc. This makes it a perfect example of vertical integration.

• Carnegie Steel Company

• Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company

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____________________ eventually owned 95% of the nation's supply of one particular good as a result of them buying out all of their competition, making it a perfect example of horizontal integration.

• Andrew Carnegie's Steel Company

• Rockefeller's Standard Oil

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What goal motivated Henry Flagler to build the Florida East Coast Railway?

• A. to encourage the U.S. government to build a canal in Panama

• B. to bring tourists to the luxury hotels he had built along the Florida coastline

• C. to create a refuge for people immigrating to the United States from Latin America

• D. to build a "dream town" with money he had made from his partnership with John

  D. Rockefeller

Labor Movement

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Which labor organization was founded by Samuel Gompers in 1886?

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Pullman Strike

• Social Darwinism

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What was the Pullman Strike primarily about?

• A protest against unsafe working conditions

• a boycott that shut down the railroad system out west and led to riots

• A movement to promote child labor laws

• A campaign to support the Bessemer Process

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What event in 1886 became associated with violence and anarchism in the labor movement?

• Homestead Strike

• Pullman Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Boston Tea Party

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Which strike involved Carnegie and Frick locking out workers from Homestead Steelworks?

• Pullman Strike

• Homestead Strike

• Haymarket Riot

• Great Railroad Strike

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What was the response of President Cleveland to the Pullman Strike?

• He lowered wages

• He sent in federal troops

• He negotiated with workers

• He ignored the strike

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What is the term for temporary workers who fill jobs during a strike?

• Scabs

• Unionists

• Strikers

• Negotiators

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What is a "Yellow-Dog" contract?

• A contract for higher wages

• A contract forcing workers to sign a workplace agreement not to unionize

• A contract for temporary workers

• A contract for permanent employment

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What is the term for private detectives used to break strikes?

• Scabs

• Pinkertons

• Unionists

• Negotiators

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What is the term for closing down a factory or mill to prevent workers from working?

• Lockout

• Strike

• Boycott

• Picketing

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What is the term for circulating names of fired workers to other employers?

• Black-listing

• White-listing

• Red-listing

• Blue-listing

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What is the term for workers negotiating new contracts to improve wages and conditions?

• Collective Bargaining

• Strike-breaking

• Lockout

• Black-listing

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Which labor organization was founded in 1869 and aimed to include all workers regardless of race or gender?

• American Federation of Labor

• Knights of Labor

• Industrial Workers of the World

• United Mine Workers

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Which labor organization was founded in 1881 by Samuel Gompers, only represented skilled workers, and was hostile toward the idea of women in the workforce?

• American Federation of Labor

• Knights of Labor

• Industrial Workers of the World

• United Mine Workers

Cities and Immigration

Multiple Choice

What was the main reason that immigrants came to the US in the 1800's?

• Visiting relatives.

• Searching gold.

• Finding jobs in the cities.

• Finding jobs in the plantations.

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Conditions in immigrants' home countries pushed them to leave and conditions in US pulled them to come

• Immigration factors
• Emigration factors
• Push/Pull factors
• Cush/ Pull factors

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Most European immigrant arrivals were processed here

• Ellis Island, San Francisco
• Angel Island, San Francisco
• Angel Island, New York
• Ellis Island, New York

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Most Asian immigrant arrivals were processed here 

• Angie Island
• Angel Island
  
• Ellis Island
• Alcatraz Island
  

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What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?

• Increased the number of Chinese immigrants

• Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.

• Prohibited Chinese immigrants from leaving the U.S.

• Prohibited immigrants from entering the U.S.

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Americans who were anti-immigration due to the fear of losing jobs to immigrants were called-

• Bootlegger

• Monopolies

• Communists

• Nativists

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Strong leader or "Boss" gets people to vote their way for favors or cash

• Internal combustion machine
• Ghettos
• Political Machine
• Grange Movement

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What part of the country did political machines control?

• Urban (city) governments

• Rural (country) governments

• The U.S. federal government

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How did political machines get the support of immigrants?

• they promised to stop illegal immigration from Latin America

• They wasted money on military spending

• They helped them find homes and jobs in exchange for votes

• They developed a system to make becoming a citizen easier

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Why are political machines an example of corruption in the Gilded Age?

• They made sure unions could not protect workers from management

• They forced immigrants into the US from Latin America

• They took control of city governments and stole millions of dollars from the cities

• They prevented immigrants from being Americanized

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The most famous political machine was Tammany Hall in New York lead by-

• Bill the Butcher

• Andrew Carnegie

• William "Boss" Tweed

• John D Rockefeller

The Progressive Movement

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A major goal of the Progressive movement was to

• stimulate the economy.

• support government control of factory production.

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society.

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The goals of muckraking journalists were to

• advertise the economic benefits of industrialization.

• describe and illustrate the problems within American society.

• encourage European immigration through advertising in European newspapers.

• attract rural residents to move into the urban centers.

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During the Progressive Era, new amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution. Which amendment number allowed citizens to directly elect senators?

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

• 17th

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An important Progressive reformer who became President of the US. He helped pass through many progressive reforms.

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry Truman

• Woodrow Wilson

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Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17^th Amendment

How did the reforms listed above impact America?

• A system of separate schools for new immigrants

• They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government

• More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.

• They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

Multiple Choice

Which president introduced a new federal income tax, Federal Reserve, and Federal Trade Commission?

• McKinley
• Roosevelt
• Taft
• Wilson

Multiple Choice

What nickname did Roosevelt get after breaking up monopolies with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

• Trustbuster
• Monopolybuster
• Tim Roosevelt Destroyer of Trusts
• Slayer of trusts and eradicator of monopolies

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Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

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Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

Multiple Choice

Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?

• Alexander Bell
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt

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What was the nickname given for Teddy Roosevelt’s progressive plan for the American people after he

became President?

• New Deal

• Progressive Deal

• Square Deal

• Deal or No Deal

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How did the publication of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair in 1906 most affect American industrialization?

• by supporting laissez-faire policies

• by exposing corrupt labor-union activities

• by revealing unsanitary food-processing practices

• by recommending fewer foreign immigration laws

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Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addams's Settlement House movement in Chicago?

• The founding of women's colleges

• The introduction of prison reform

• The assimilation of immigrants

• The establishment of public libraries

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Which phrase best describes the purpose of Hull House during the early twentieth century?

• providing religious instruction to future clergy members

• serving as meeting halls for nativist political organizations

• influencing the political practices of newly arrived immigrants

• offering social services to economically disadvantaged neighborhoods

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Look at the following list which shows the goals of a movement from the early 1900s and answer the question below.

Created the Salvation Army

Created the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)

Provided welfare services to the public

These goals are most closely associated with which movement?

• Civil Rights

• Isolationist

• Social Gospel

• Temperance