Gilded Age and Progressive Era

During what era was there an in increase in corruption, big business, immigration, and urbanization?

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Cold War

• Great Depression

During the Gilded Age, there was an increase in ________________ and _________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

• Immigration / urbanization

• capitalism / imperialism

• communism / free enterprise

• reform movements / civil rights

Andrew Carnegie was an entrepreneur and a ______________ because he donated money to libraries and universities.

• populist

• philanthropist

• muckraker

• imperialist

What innovation helped people settle the Great Plains and opened new markets in the west?

• Automobile

• Airplane

• Telephone

• Transcontinental Railroad

The government encourage Native Americans and immigrants to adopt white culture in a process called ____________.

• cultural diffusion / globalization

• acculturation / industrialization

• assimilation / americanization

• overspeculation / urbanization

This law was made to reduce competition for jobs on the West coast because it prohibited immigration from China?

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

Americans who were anti-immigration due to fear of losing jobs to immigrants were called -

• muckrakers

• nativists

• imperialists

• industrialists

The ratification of this amendment granted suffrage to all genders.

• 15th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer's safety as a response to Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle?

• Natural Park Service

• NAACP

• Pure Food & Drug Administration

• Environmental Protection Agency

What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th