Gilded Age

An increase in political corruption, big business, immigration, and urbanization took place during the-

• Progressive Era

• Gilded Age

• Roaring 20's

• Great Depression

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

• Bootlegger

• Monopolies

• Communists

• Nativists

New __________________ like the light bulb made manufacturing processes more efficient.

• Innovations

• Manufactoring

• Ideas

• Infrastructure

This type of economic system during the Gilded Age allowed for the growth of big business and monopolies-

• Monopolies

• Nativism

• Laissez-faire (hands off)

• New Deal

During the Gilded Age there was an increase in ____________________ and ___________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

• Work and Infrastructure

• Corruption and Laissez-Faire

• Urbanization and Immigration

• Monopolies and Political Bosses

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

• Cars

• Transcontinental Railroad

• AC

• Industrialization

Which group of immigrants came to the U.S. as a result of famine and were discriminated against for being Catholic?

• Irish

• Mexican

• Russian

• Israeli

The government encouraged Native Americans and immigrants to adopt white culture in a process called ___________________.

• Assimilation/Americanization

• Nativistism

• Communism

• Vietnamization

This law was made to reduce competition for jobs on the West Coast because it prohibited immigration from China-

• Pendleton Act

• Homestead Act

• Mexican Repatriation Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

The Homestead Act (1862) promoted the development of western lands by -

• creating a system of dams for crop irrigation

• providing land for $10 to settlers

• removing all restrictions on immigration

• Moving Native American Indians to reservations