Gilded Age Quiz 2

The term “muckrakers” was used in the early twentieth century to refer to . . .

• laborers who worked in the meatpacking industry

• baseball players who lost important games on purpose to collect large bribes

• writers who wrote articles sympathetic to big business

• journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty

During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a means of social reform?

• African American leaders

• Educated middle-class women

• Labor leaders

• Democratic politicians

Who helped immigrants assimilate by creating Settlement Houses in Chicago?

• Susan B Anthony
• Ida Wells
• Francis Willard
• Jane Addams

The political party that advocated for farmers was known as the ______party.

• Republican

• Democrat

• Populist

• Know-nothings

The belief that the ideas of natural selection ("survival of the fittest") should be applied to the marketplace and to society at large.

• social darwinism

• gospel of wealth

• Spencer's Theory of Selectivity

• Laissez-faire

What is the primary purpose of the laissez-faire ideology?

• To oppose government's regulation of business

• To assert that government should control major industries

• To make sure government is eliminated

• To ensure that nations avoid trade

During the period from 1880 to 1910, why did the majority of immigrants to the United States settle in urban areas in the North?

• The Populists were successful in preventing immigrants from buying farmland.
• Rapid industrialization had created many job opportunities.
• Labor unions gave financial help to immigrants willing to work in the factories.
• Most immigrants had lived in cities in their native countries.

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• Melting Pot
• Birds of Passage
• Nativism
• All of the above

What is the Quota System?

• A system created to limit the number of immigrants who could be in America
• The end of the Civil War
• The Basic rules of Immigration
• The first rule of immigration

Why did unregulated immigration end in the 1920s?

• US passed a law limiting immigration 
• People didn't want to come to the US anymore
• There was a war in the US
• Countries wouldn't allow citizens to leave for the US