Gilded Age 3

The cover from a nineteenth-century periodical helps illustrate that the United States was beginning to change from--

• A- a mostly rural society to a mostly urban one

• B- a slave-owning society to one without slavery

• C- a foreign policy of isolationism to one of interventionism

• D- a direct democracy to a representative one

During the late nineteenth century, many Irish immigrants were discriminated against for being--

• F- opposed to machine politics

• G- loyal to the United Kingdom

• H- conscientious objectors

• J- Roman Catholics

Which Andrew Carnegie quotation best explains why he funded libraries like the one is this photograph?

• A- "Under the law of competition, employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies, and often there is friction between the employer and the employed."

• B- "The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is... great."

• C- "The best means of benefiting the community is to place with its reach the ladders upon which aspiring can rise."

• D- This, then, is... the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance."

Nineteenth-century nativist organizations advocated--

• F- limiting federal military power through the organization of local militias

• G- conserving natural resources through the creation of national parks

• H- globalizing the economy through participation in free- trade agreements

• J- promoting an ethnically homogeneous society through restrictions on immigration

Which group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon?

• A- Union leaders

• B- Philanthropists

• C- Political bosses

• D- Nativists