Gilded Age Intro

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

19th century Chinese immigrants are known for what?

• Work in building the Transcontinental Railroad
• Work in New York factories
• Contributions to the steel industry
• Contributions to John D. Rockefeller

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

• Bootlegger

• Monopolies

• Communists

• Nativists

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

• Cars

• Transcontinental Railroad

• AC

• Industrialization

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Stamp Act
• Great Plains Act
• Homestead Act

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• Interstate Commerce Act 
• Homestead Act
• Sherman AntiTrust Act
• Dawes Act

An organization of workers who promote their interests collectively (as a group)

• Labor union
• Political machine
• Caucus

In The Gospel of Wealth, he argues that very wealthy men like him had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• JP Morgan

Who was the boss of New York's Tammany Hall, which defrauded NYC out of millions of dollars? 

• Boss Tweed
• Boss Nast
• Boss Cleveland
• Boss Marconi

Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautions about change or advancement (is the definition of...)

• Conservative

• Liberal

• Fundamentalist