Gilded Age/Progressive Era

What was one reason it was very easy for cities to grow rapidly during the Gilded Age:

• The Square Deal

• many immigrants moved to the cities and were willing to work for less money

• the purchase of Alaska

• none of these

What natural resource helped fuel the growth of industrialization

• oil

• gold

• water

• iron

Which best describes a monopoly?

• Equal competition for every company

• When one business owns everything and makes it hard for competition to make money or stay in business

• Not allowing partnering in business

• all of these

Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan all earned this nickname

• presidential candidates

• political bosses

• union leaders

• Robber Baron

This book inspired the creation of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

• The Jungle

• How the other Half Lives

• A Tale of Two Cities

• all of these

Immigrants came to the US because

• opportunity

• religious freedom

• escape persecution

• all of these

Jane Addams created which of the following

• YMCA

• Hull House

• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

• all of these

Ida Tarbell broke up which company when she exposed them?

• Standard Oil

• US Steel

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• none of these

This African American activist promoted equality apart from the white population

• WEB DuBois

• Upton Sinclair

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Booker T. Washington

Which of the following was an invention that came out during the Gilded Age?

• The telephone

• the typewriter

• the light bulb

• all of the answers