The Gilded Age - 2018

One reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...

• Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governments
• Believed immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive land
• Thought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exports
• Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values

Fact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century? 

• Working conditions
• Racial segregation
• Class discrimination
• Growing prosperity

What issue split Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?

• Washington's lesser emphasis on attainment of political and civil rights
• Washington's unwillingness to accept advice from anyone other than African Americans
• DuBois's belief that African Americans needed to achieve economic self-sufficiency
• DuBois's minimization of importance of education

How Sears, Roebuck & Co. transformed late nineteenth-century economy?

• Expanded market for consumer goods
• Applied new technologies in their stores
• Advertised services of new companies
• Employed sales associates in rural locations

How did vertical integration benefit companies such as Carnegie Steel?

• Allowed labor unions to participate in decision-making
• Controlled production and distribution processes
• Invested in health and education of employees
• Included local politicians on boards of directors 

Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry?

• Electrification
• Vulcanization
• Steam power
• Bessemer Process

How did the Knights of Labor differ from the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?

• KoL advocated strikes as tactic
• KoL opened membership to women, blacks, and ethnic minorities
• KoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal level
• KoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits

Construction of Central Pacific Railroad (part of transcontinental railroad) relied largely on who?

• Chinese
• German
• Irish
• Mexican

In their work with immigrants, settlement houses mainly addressed which need?

• Occupational skills
• Spiritual guidance
• Affordable housing
• Cultural adjustment, daycare, and educational training

US Cavalry's buffalo soldiers shared what experienced with most African Americans of their time?

• Earned respect for skill and valor
• Segregated because of race
• Beneficiaries of affirmative action
• Not permitted to own property