Gilded Age Review

When was the Gilded Age?

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

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics

What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt.  For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.

• Daley
• Grant
• Tilden
• Tweed

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Ida Wells
• Jacob Riis

Described as a time marked by gross income inequality and corrupt practices by corporations and abuse of workers, the term "Gilded Age" was coined by what writer?

• Upton Sinclair
• Andrew Carnegie
• Mark Twian
• Henry George

How nineteenth-century city bosses and their machines retained control? 

• Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support
• Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
• Using police forces to protect organized labor
• Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference

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

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

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

Statement best explains why Custer became a national hero after Battle of Little Bighorn?

• President Grant commended his courage and brilliance by awarding him Medal of Honor.
• Wild West shows portrayed him and troops fighting courageously against enemy force
• He wrote a best-selling novel detailing how he prevented Confederate troops from capturing forts.
• His victory ended organized American Indian resistance to westward movement of white settlers. 

How the incandescent lightbulb improved nineteenth-century urban conditions?

• Created possibility of home-based businesses
• Prompted more immigrants to remain in large cities
• Enabled passenger trains to operate at night
• Replaced dirty and dangerous gaslight