period 6 test review

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?

• South Europe
• NE Europe
• SW Europe
• SE Europe

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• Social Darwinism
• Gospel of Wealth

The Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.

• direct voting
• civil service reform
• political machines
• civil labor unions

Due to the corruption of the railroads companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies to be reasonable in prices.

• Interstate Commerece Act
• Dawes Act
• Transcontiental Act
• Laissez Faire Act 

Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Donald Trump
• Nativists

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book, How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida Wells

• Jacob Riis

William Graham Sumner was a popular researcher and writer during the Gilded Age.  He believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because, "...a drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be..."  That is, Sumner believed that we all had a certain station or place that was ordained and could not be changed.  This Gilded Age philosophy was called which of the following?

• Evolution
• Monetary Policy
• Social Darwinism
• Welfare Capitalism

How did Knights of Labor differ from American Federation of Labor?

• KoL advocated strikes as tactic
• KoL opened membership to women, blacks, and ethnic minorities
• KoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal level
• KoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits

Which of following was most closely associated with the Populist Party?

• Jane Addams
• William Jennings Bryan
• Eugene Debs
• Samuel Gompers