Gilded Age - Short Assessment

The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century? 

• vertical integration
  
• monopolization
  
• industrialism 
• laissez-faire capitalism 

How Haymarket Square affected Knights of Labor?

• Massive gathering of workers forced federal government to place limits on union's activities
• Workers lost confidence in union's leadership after union president given details of rally to police
• Union members grew disillusioned as newspapers blamed workers for violence
• Union's emphasis on recruiting immigrants angered American-born workers

Event depicted?

• Pullman Palace Car disaster
• Haymarket Square catastrophe
• Coeur d'Alene strike
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory tragedy

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 

For helping those in poorest districts of Chicago, among Polish, Italian, Mexican, and other immigrants, she received Nobel Peace Prize...

• Jane Addams
• Susan B. Anthony
• Ida Tarbell
• Eleanor Roosevelt

When was the Gilded Age?

• 1870-1900
• 1820-1860
• 1900-1920
• 1865-1877

What was the name of the law, passed in 1883 during the Gilded Age, that sought to reform government?  It required government applicants to take competitive exams so that they would be hired based upon merit rather than political affiliation.  This law was passed in response to widespread political corruption and the assassination of President Garfield.

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Pendelton Civil Service Act
• Underwood Tariff Act
• Celler-Kefaufer Act

In 1886 in the Wabash Cases, during the Gilded Age, the Supreme Court limited the ability of the state to set railroad rates on interstate commerce (rail traffic crossing state boundaries).  The court clarified that the ability to regulate interstate commerce was the province of the Congress.  in 1887, Congress passed what law, in part, because of the Wabash Cases?

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Celler-Kefauver Act
• Clayton Antitrust Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act

What Progressive Era Muckraker wrote about the terrible living conditions in cities in the book The Shame of the Cities that had been created during the Gilded Age?

• Lincoln Steffens
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair
• Ray Stannard Baker

What was the name of the company and the railroad scandal, during the Gilded Age, through which the government paid tens of millions of unearned dollars.  NIne Congressmen were implicated in teh scandal and the sitting Vice Presdient was forced to remove himself from the Republican ticket for possible reelection. 

• Homestead
• Pullman
• Credit Mobilier
• Union Pacific