Gilded Age

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

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

• East Coast to West Coast

• West Coast to East Coast

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

What region of the US had the greatest Urban Growth during the Gilded Age? (Late 1800s)

• Northeast

• Northwest

• Southeast

• Southwest

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

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

What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Marbury v Madison

• Roe v Wade

TRUE OR FALSE: Robber Barons lived in filthy, overcrowded apartments with one toilet per floor

• True
• False

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as-

• Educated professionals
• skilled workers
• Factory/sweatshop workers
• Scientists