The Gilded Age

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 

• Nativists
• Political bosses
• Miners
• Labor leaders

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Stamp Act
• Great Plains Act
• Homestead Act

TRUE OR FALSE: Robber Barons lived in filthy, overcrowded apartments with one toilet per floor

• True
• False

Which is NOT a conclusion that can be made about the transcontinental railroad?

• Goods were transported across country
• Travel across the country was possible
• Populations in the west increased
• Railroad reduced the size of the US

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as-

• Educated professionals
• skilled workers
• Factory/sweatshop workers
• Scientists

Which one of these men was not a robber baron with a monopoly and ruthless business tactics?

• Andrew Carnegie
• JP Morgan
• John D. Rockefeller
• Thomas Edison

Passage of the Homestead Act and of legislation supporting the construction of

transcontinental railroads demonstrated the federal government’s commitment to

• settlement of western territories

• limits on big business

• conservation of natural resources

• equality for all immigrants

Which factor contributed MOST to the rise of inner-city overcrowding in the late 19th century

• industrialization

• suffrage

• antitrust legislation

• settlement houses

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, the term robber baron best defined a person who did what?

• used ruthless business tactics

• controlled large tracts of western lands

• encouraged the conservation of raw materials

• stole from the rich to give to the poor

Type of business that controls all of a market?

• corporation
• business
• monopoly
• pool