The Gilded Age and Industrialization

What purpose did Labor Unions serve during the Gilded Age?

• To help large corporations to increase their production.

• To promote immigration of skilled workers from Asia and Europe.

• To unite workers to collectively demand better wages, hours, and working conditions from factory owners

• To introduce new and innovative techniques to factories.

The RR Trust run by Cornelius Vanderbilt engaged in corrupt pricing practices by charging high rates for RR routes that were used regularly no matter the distance. Farmers were many times overcharged to transport crops to the East.

What was the Act that was passed that would allow the government to regulate Railroad businesses and routes?

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Indian Migration Act

• Civil Service Act

Analyze this picture and determine why the size of Rockefeller is so exaggerated.

• He was a political boss who tried to win governmental favors

• He was a government inspector looking for corruption

• He was a robber baron who used his money and power to influence government

• He was looking to correct all of pollution cause by industrialization

Analyze this political cartoon and explain the symbolism you identify in the picture

• the government handed out welfare to the poor

• many large businessmen sold favors to their patrons

• political bosses used the spoils system to reward their supporters with favors, contracts, and jobs.

• the mayor of cities would hand out the voting ballots on election day to the public

Thomas Edison will invent a source of illumination that will revolutionize the way factories work and improve the quality of life for many. What was the name of this invention?

• light bulb

• telegraph

• telephone

• typewriter

Due to the lack of compulsory education laws, low wages, and a high level of poverty in ethnic ghettos many children worked along side men and women.

All of the below were characteristics of Child Labor during Industrialization EXCEPT---

• long hours

• educational opportunities

• less pay

• many injuries

Which two ethnic groups played an important role in the construction and completion of the Transcontinental Railroad?

• African Americans and Native Americans

• Buffalo Soldiers and Chinese immigrants

• Steelworkers and Irish

• Irish and Chinese immigrants

Who Am I?

Scottish Immigrant who will change the American urban landscape with the use of the Bessemer Process to create steel and eventually lead to modern skyscrapers. Later in life will become a philanthropist giving millions back to his community.

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Samuel Gompers

• George Jordan

• John D. Rockefeller

Who Am I?

a pioneer in the oil refinery industry, used horizontal alignment business model, used ruthless tactics to become a wealthy industrialist, later in life will become a philanthropist.

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Samuel Gompers

• George Jordan

• John D. Rockefeller

Which of the following is an example of tenement?

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