Gilded Age Unit Test

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

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

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

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• anthropolgy
• philanthropy

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 Industrilization 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

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

believed in giving his money back under his 'Gospel of Welath" policy

• Andrew Carnegie
• John Rockefeller
• Eugene Debs
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

Complete control over an industry's production, wages, & prices

• monopoly
• capitalism
• socialism
• concentration of wealth