Unit 2: Gilded Age

What is Social Darwinism?

• Survival of the fittest

• The government is responsible for helping the less fortunate.

• The most talented people will come out on top.

What is the major cause of urbanization?

• Increased industrialization

• End of restrictions on immigrants

• availability of cheap farmland

What statement best describes a result of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

• Farm production decreased.

• Population of the cities decreased.

• Slavery in the South increased.

• Technological advances allowed increased industrialization.

What is the policy of laissez-faire?

• To let do

• To interfere

The Transcontinental Railroad was important because

• Time zones were created.

• Increase in public transportation.

• Shipping of goods increased.

• All of the above

Promontory Point was

• in Utah where railroads were joined coast-to-coast by golden spike.

• Top of the mountain in Mount Rushmore where four US Presidents are carved.

• Highest skyscraper in NYC that Andrew Carnegie built.

Thomas Edison invented

• telephone

• light bulb

• barb wire

• telegraph

Henry Bessemer invented

• a new process to create steel

• light bulb

• telephone

• telegraph

Nativism is

• the belief that all people are equal

• the belief that natural-born Americans are superior to immigrants.

• the belief that immigrants are welcome to the United States

• the belief that social services should be offered to immigrants.

Which negative term is applied to the Gilded Age Industrialist?

• Captains of industry

• Robber Barons