Gilded Age Quiz

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

• They caught diseases
• Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice
• Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US
• Difficult to study for the citizenship test

This banker tycoon made his fortune by taking over and merging other people's businesses.

• J.P. Morgan
• Cornelius Vanderbilt
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller

Why did workers form unions?

• to decrease wages
• to expand child labor
• to increase working hours
• to improve working conditions

An organization of workers established to serve and advance its members' interests in terms of wages, benefits, and working hours and conditions

• closed shop

• labor union

• blacklist

• lockout

What were political machines?

• Powerful organizations that controlled local city governments.

• Machines that were used to count votes.

• Politicians who were the most qualified for their position.

• City officials that provided food and clothing to the poor.

The industrial workforce was made up of mostly

• men

• women

• children

• all of the above

_{Most strikes by unions in the late 1800s were unsuccessful mainly because}

• unions were unconstitutional

• strikes had never been used before to settle labor issues

• government supported business instead of workers

• strikers failed to use militant tactics

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

to settle in/enter a country other than your native land

• immigration

• emigration

• salad bowl

• melting pot