The Gilded Age

By the early 1900s, Americans had transformed the United States into the world´s leading

• industrial nation
• military establishment
• laissez-faire country
• gross national product

______ was equally as important as natural resources in the nation's rapid industrialization

• increased population
• a new tariff law
• new technology
• the political system

One reason for America´s industrial success was its

• wide open spaces
• small workforce
• abundant raw materials
• access to oceans

One of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators was _______

• JP Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• John Rockefeller

The Knights of Labor suffered a steady decline in membership and influence due to lost strikes and _____

• its refusal to use arbitration
• its support of Marxism
• the Haymarket Riot
• the Homestead Strike

The wave of immigrants that arrived in the late nineteenth century changed American society by _______

• bringing new ideas to American industries
• changing the face and size of American cities
• forming ethnic neighborhoods in many communities
• rapidly assimilating into mainstream American culture

Many immigrants left Europe to escape poverty, the restrictions of social class, forced military service, high food prices, population pressure, and ________

• civil war
• the lack of industrial jobs
• religious persecution
• urban problems such as crime

William M Tweed was __________

• the designer of the first skyscraper
• the inventor of the electric trolley car
• the leader of the Workingmen's Party
• the party boss of a political machine

Nativism in the late 1800s was focused on Asian immigrants, Jewish immigrants, and ______

• British immigrants
• Canadian immigrants
• eastern European immigrants
• Scandinavian immigrants

The philosophy of Social Darwinism applied Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to _____

• biblical accounts of creation
• human society and competition
• political and economic issues
• the social reform movement