Gilded Age

What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?

• Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside

• Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside

The Dawes Severalty Act dealt with which group in America?

• Indians (Native Americans)

• Immigrants

• Chinese

• Settlers

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CCSS.RL.8.9

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

• The Immigrants and the Poor

• The Immigrants and Big Businesses

• The Poor and the Chinese

• The Chinese and the Big Businesses

Civil Service Reform was a response to what?

• Political Machines and the Spoils System

• Chinese Immigrants

• Indians (Native Americans)

• The need to regulate State Governments

Changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to adopt Christianity, requiring them to learn English, etc. These are all examples of what pushed on many Immigrants, but especially the Indians (Native Americans)?

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Protectionism

• Temperance

The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.

• Entrepreneurs

• Nativists

• Philanthropists

• Populists

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Nativists

• Populists

• Philanthropists

• Social Workers

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CCSS.RL.8.9

Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?

• Women and children had to become wage earners

• Women and children became business owners

• Women and children became more educated

• Women and children became leaders of organized labor

The Homestead Act caused a shift in population to move from where to where?

• East Coast to West Coast

• West Coast to East Coast

What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?

• Immigrants

• The Poor

• Indians (Native Americans)

• Former Slaves