The Gilded Age

Laissez-faire means 

• Government intervention 
• "Hands-off" economic policy 
• Deficit spending 
• Command economy 

Robber Barons used this theory to justify their actions in business

• Social Darwinism
• conspicuous consumption
• Evolution
• nativism

Which term describes Americans who were opposed to immigrants?

• nativists
• industrialists
• anarchists
• suffragists

The first laws Congress passed to reduce immigration to the U.S. placed restrictions on immigrants from which country?

• Cuba
• Great Britain
• Japan
• China

The Open Door Policy expanded international trade in which country?

• China
• Mexico
• The Philippines
• France

The new immigrants were from ____________.

• Northern and Western Europe
• Africa and Asia
• Southern and Eastern Europe
• Australia and Africa

Where were the "old" immigrants from?

• Northern and Western Europe
• Southern and Eastern Europe
• Russia
• Austrailia

The _____________ stated that European countries would no longer be allowed to create new colonies or to interfere with the affairs of independent nations in the Western Hemisphere. 

• Chinese Exclusion Act
• Gentlemen Agreement
• Monroe Doctrine
• Sherman Anti-trust Act

Hull House was founded in Chicago by Jane Addams to

• help the urban poor living in slums
• provide lodging for child laborers   
• help persecuted Jewish Americans   
• serve as a meeting place for suffragists

• Discrimination
• Language barriers
• _______ 
The difficulties above were experienced by immigrants in America during the era 1877-1898. Which of the following items should be added to the list?

• high income tax
• slum living conditions
• denied suffrage
• limited job availability