Gilded Age & Progressive Era Review

The Robber Barons used _______________ to donate money to good causes.

• mass production

• tenements

• philanthropy

The United States uses a policy of ______________, which believes businesses should be owned by private citizens

• mass production

• captains of industry

• capitalism

________________ were made to break up monopolies.

• civil service exams

• anti-immigration acts

• anti-trust acts

Teddy Roosevelt is best known as a _____________________.

• trustbuster

• muckraker

• captain of industry

The US government wanted to limit the amount of immigrants entering the United States with the _____________________.

• anti-immigration acts

• civil service exams

• anti-trust acts

To help protect workers and have better working conditions, ______________ were formed.

• slums

• manufacturing

• labor unions

The United States created Anti-Immigrant laws because …..

• they wanted more immigrants to come to America.

• they thought there were too many immigrants coming to America.

• they wanted to help others

Urbanization happened because . . .

• most people wanted to live on farms.

• there were lots of factory jobs available in the cities.

• the cities were cleaner than the country.

Muckrakers wrote about the problems in the US because …

• the government was not doing anything to fix the problems

• It allowed farmers to harvest wheat much faster

• Captains of Industry were not making a profit

Working conditions were terrible and as result

• Robber barons lived in slums.

• tenements were built.

• labor unions were formed.