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The Gilded Age

Authored by Alan Heise

History

9th - 12th Grade

CCSS covered

Used 15+ times

The Gilded Age
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

The Immigrants and the Poor

Robber Barons and Big Businesses

The Poor and the Chinese

The Chinese and the Big Businesses

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Civil Service Reform was a response to what?

Political Corruption and the Spoils System

Chinese Immigrants

Indians (Native Americans)

The need to regulate State Governments

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The title given to people like Carnegie who donated their money to public projects such as libraries and universities.

Entrepreneurs

Nativists

Philanthropists

Populists

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

East Coast to West Coast

West Coast to East Coast

South to Northeast

Northern cities to Southern Plantations

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did Political Machines use Infrastructure to gain power and manipulate Immigrants?

Gave them work on those projects in exchange for votes

Got them to work on those projects in exchange for money

Prevented them from working on those projects

Allowed immigrants to run for political positions

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?

Rural areas to Urban areas

Urban areas to Rural areas

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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