Gilded Age

Gilded Age

KG - University

30 Qs

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Gilded Age

Gilded Age

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

When was the Gilded Age?

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

The Farmer's Alliance and the Grange, both founded during the Gilded Age, stood for additional government regulation of trade and creating the conditions for more political power and economic well being for farmers (as compared to industrialists).  What 1890s group was founded, supporting these ideas, and attacking the Gold Standard?

Progressives
Free Soil Party
IWW
Populists

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago.  It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others.  It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business.  Who founded Hull House?

Margaret Sanger
Jane Addams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 1 pt

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

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