Gilded Age Quiz

Why were the Industrial Capitalists referred to as "robber barons"?

• Industrialists often took advantage of other people economically.
• Industralists stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
• Industrialists were shared buisness partnerships controlled by a CEO.
• Industralists often formed conglomerates to rob smaller industries.

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom
• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)
• Wanted LESS diversity
• Wanted to live more simply

Why did immigrants often live in neighborhoods with others from their homelands?

• It was illegal to live anywhere else
• They didn't want to be in the US
• It made their adjustment to their new life easier
• No other housing was avaliable

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

• They caught diseases
• Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice
• Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US
• Difficult to study for the citizenship test

Why did workers form unions?

• to decrease wages
• to expand child labor
• to increase working hours
• to improve working conditions

Which industry was the engine behind the massive, late 19th century economic growth, helping other industries to grow with it??

• The railroad industry

• The mining industry

• The textile industry

• The banking industry

This theory refers to a lack of government interference in American business through regulations.

• Gilded Age
• Laissez Faire
• Free-Enterprise
• Monopoly

Looking at the image from the nineteenth century, it show the United States began to make what type of transition?

• From an rural society to an urban one
• a slave owning society to one without slavery
• a direct democracy to a representative
  
• from isolationism to one of intervention

The belief that the ideas of natural selection ("survival of the fittest") should be applied to the marketplace and to society at large.

• social darwinism

• gospel of wealth

• Spencer's Theory of Selectivity

• Laissez-faire

Which idea led to a rise in anti-immigrant groups and a demand for immigration restrictions?

• Melting Pot
• Birds of Passage
• Nativism
• All of the above