Gilded Age

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's 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 to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

The Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.

• direct voting
• civil service reform
• political machines
• civil labor unions

Because of the rapid growth of Industrialization in the North people moved out of rural towns to?

• Rural farms
• Urbanzied cities
• Subrebs cities
• El rancho

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

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• Interstate Commerce Act 
• Homestead Act
• Sherman AntiTrust Act
• Dawes Act

What institution most expanded during the Gilded Age?

• big business
• the military
• the credit industry
• rural life

Type of business that controls all of a market?

• corporation
• business
• monopoly
• pool