Chapter 15 Review

What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?

• Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside

• Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

• The Immigrants and the Poor

• The Immigrants and Big Businesses

• The Poor and the Chinese

• The Chinese and the Big Businesses

The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.

• Entrepreneurs

• Nativists

• Philanthropists

• Populists

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

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?

• Women and children had to become wage earners

• Women and children became business owners

• Women and children became more educated

• Women and children became leaders of organized labor

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

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

Who is most associated with political machines in New York City?

• "Boss" Tweed

• John Rockefeller

• Jane Adams

• Andrew Carnegie

Poor, crowded, and unhealthy describe:

• Prospecting
• Tenements
• Country life
• A farmer's life

What is the significance of Ellis Island?

• It was the place where most European immigrants settled.
• It was the place where most European immigrants passed through before they became citizens.
• It was the place where unwanted immigrants were sent by the U.S. government.
• It was the headquarters of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.