Gilded Age Quiz 2

What is another word for inventions that made manufacturing more efficient during the Gilded Age?

• philanthropists

• innovations

• monopolies

• nativists

What type of economic system during the Gilded Age allowed for the growth of big business?

• Urbanization

• Communist

• Laissez-faire (hands off)

• Traditional

What is the name given to an entrepreneur who donates money to libraries and universities?

• philanthropist

• robber baron

• monopoly

• innovation

The Homestead Act was a law that helped settle the _____________ because it allowed people to claim public land in the Great Plains as long as they homesteaded the land successfully for 5 years.

• West

• East

• Urban Areas

• South

What innovation promoted settlement and trade by helping ranchers and farmers get their products to market?

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Light bulb

• Telegraph

• Homestead Act

How did new innovations affect production during the Gilded Age?

• They made production slower

• They made production more expensive

• They made production more efficient

• All of the above

What process describes the movement of people from the rural areas to the cities in search of jobs in manufacturing?

• Urbanization

• Industrialization

• Innovations

• Transcontinental Railroad

The growth of factories in urban areas is called-

• Laissez-Faire

• Philanthropy

• Industrialization

• Big Business

Millions of people migrated to urban areas during the Gilded Age in search of-

• Big Business

• Monopolies

• Economic Opportunities

• Innovations

The government's laissez-faire (hands-off) policies during the Gilded Age contributed to the growth of big business and ________

• Nativists

• Monopolies

• Assimilation

• Chinese Exclusion Act