Gilded Age

What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?

• Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside

• Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Nativists

• Populists

• Philanthropists

• Social Workers

Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?

• Women and children had to become wage earners

• Women and children became business owners

• Women and children became more educated

• Women and children became leaders of organized labor

The Homestead Act caused a shift in population to move from where to where?

• East Coast to West Coast

• West Coast to East Coast

What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?

• Immigrants

• The Poor

• Indians (Native Americans)

• Former Slaves

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Nativism

• Assimilation

Roads, skyscrapers, prisons, sewers, schools, railroads, etc, are all examples of what?

• Infrastructure

• Rural Expansion

• Assimilation

• Nativism

An organization of workers who promote their interests collectively (as a group)

• Labor union
• Political machine
• Caucus

The __________ process was a less expensive way to make steel.

• Edison
• Foundry
• Bessemer
• Factory

The photo demonstrates one of the problems with

• overcrowding urban tenements.
• labor union activism in urban areas.
• the overproduction of consumer goods.
• the growth of political machines.