APUSH Chapter 17 Quiz

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

A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.

• monopoly
• corporation
• trust
• horizontal Integration

He was known as a major entrepreneur in the Oil Industry

• John Rockefeller
• Andrew Carnegie
• Cornelius Vanderbelt 
• Gustavus Swift

What is Andrew Carnegie known for

• Creating the US Steel Company
• Creating the Standard Oil Company
• Creating the first assembly line plant
• Becoming the President of the U.S.

Labor-related protest in Chicago during 1886

• Haymarket Riot
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Wounded Knee
• Boston Tea Party

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for its rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

During the Gilded age, workers came together under ___________________________ to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours.

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

Due to the period of increased corruption from railroad companies, the U.S. government created the ___________________________  to regulate railroad companies.

• Interstate Commerce Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontinental Act
• Laissez-Faire Act 

The first major farmers' organization was the

• National Grange
• Populists
• Greenback Labor Party
• Farmers' alliance

Because of nativist feelings and a popular growing fear of becoming jobless, Congress passed the following act in 1882 that limited immigration of an entire nationality for 10 years.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act