Gilded Age & Progressive Era

During what era was there an in increase in corruption, big business, immigration, and urbanization?

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Cold War

• Great Depression

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

• Immigration / urbanization

• capitalism / imperialism

• communism / free enterprise

• reform movements / civil rights

What term is used to describe the process where Native Americans and immigrants were encouraged to adopt white culture?

• Globalization / Cultural diffusion

• Industrialization / Acculturation

• Americanization / Assimilation

• Urbanization / Overspeculation

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

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Homestead Act

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

• muckrakers

• nativists

• imperialists

• industrialists

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

• Communism

• Socialism

• Laissez-Faire

• Mercantilism

What legislation allowed the government to regulate big business like railroads and prohibited monopolies?

• Dawes Act & Homestead Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust & Interstate Commerce Act

• Pure Food & Drug Act & Chinese Exclusion Act

• Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965

The ratification of this amendment granted suffrage to all genders.

• 15th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer's safety as a response to Upton Sinclair's, The Jungle?

• Natural Park Service

• NAACP

• Pure Food & Drug Administration

• Environmental Protection Agency

What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th