Gilded Age Review

Which of the following was NOT an important invention of the Gilded Age?

• telephone

• Internet

• electricity

• automobile

Businessmen who gave back to their communities by helping to build roads, schools, churches . .

• Philanthropists

• Politicians

• Monopolists

• Do-gooders

Owned the largest steel company in the United States

(~ 1900)

• Collis Huntington

• J. P. Morgan

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Carnegie

This technology allowed for people to travel from the east coast to the west coast . . .

• electricity

• railroads

• horse and carriage

• cotton gin

Where did European immigrants enter when they came to America?

• Ellis Island
• Rhode Island
• Alcatraz
• Angel Island

Where did Asian immigrants arrive when they came to America?

• Angel Island
• Rhode Island
• Ellis Island
• Fools Island

Why were so few Chinese immigrants allowed to come to the United States?

• Very few tried to come
• The voyage was too far and expensive
• There were no jobs available
• The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Immigrants came to America to escape

• religious persecution

• low living standards

• poor economies

• all of the above

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

• Cars

• Transcontinental Railroad

• AC

• Industrialization

How would the Homestead Act affect the population of the U.S.

• Increased populations in cities

• increased the growth of farms

• Urbanization became a widespread problem

• decreased the growth of farms