The Gilded Age

Someone who leaves their country to live in another country is an...

• immigrant

• refugee

• emigrant

• expatriot

If you promote laws or policies that discriminate against immigrants, you are a...

• nationalist

• racist

• nativist

• socialist

Which of these did NOT promote American Industrial growth during the Gilded Age?

• abundant natural resources

• a large supply of cheap labor

• government support of labor over Big Business

• the invention of machines that made production fast & cheap

Andrew Carnegie was a __ tycoon.

• oil

• railroad

• cattle

• steel

John D. Rockefeller used horizontal integration to...

• control all of the steps in the oil extraction, refining and distribution process.

• buy-out all of the oil refineries that he could.

Collective bargaining was a common tactic used by unions to...

• stop work to protest mistreatment by management.

• pressure state legislatures to pass child labor laws

• negotiate with management to get better pay and safer conditions

• increase voter turn-out on election day.

The Sherman Antitrust Act was used to break up a union to end this strike.

• The Pullman Strike

• The Homestead Strike

• The Great Railway Strike of 1877

• The Haymarket Strike

Angel Island is the immigrant receiving station located in...

• Albuquerque, New Mexico

• New York City, New York

• Tampa, Florida

• San Francisco, California

A pull factor that drew immigrants to America was

• political unrest at home

• the freedom to worship

• a lack of job opportunities

• the outbreak of war

Which characteristic best describes an immigrant arriving AFTER 1860?

• They were Protestant

• They were from Northern & Western Europe

• They came by steamship

• They included Germans