Gilded Age Quiz oct 4

Someone who uses part of their large wealth to help others.

• Industrialist
• Monopoly
• Capitalist
• Philanthropist

Which application of a new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?

• Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances.

• Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night.

• Diesel engines were used in the production of airplanes.

• Sonar technology was used to track submarines.

Which result completes this diagram?

• Ratification of suffrage amendment.

• Building of the transcontinental railroad.

• Passage of prohibition legislation

• Expansion of labor Unions

Answer explanation

Labor Unions began because of the poor conditions in the factories.

This idea developed because of the issues of the farmers including lower crop prices, overcharging railroad costs and supporting bimetallism.

• Klondike
• Populism
• Republicanism
• Laissez-Faire

Which situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?

• The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest
• The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest
• The fear in the west of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants
• The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants

Populist demands in the Late 1800s
* Regulation of railroad shipping charges
* A graduated income tax
* Free and unlimited coinage of silver
These demands most reflected the concerns of --

• small farmers in need of affordable credit
• robber barons pursuing higher profits
• prominent bankers who controlled the money supply
• immigrant workers seeking economic justice 

The growth of cities is called . . .

• rural

• technology

• immigration

• urbanization

Nativists oppose...

• Business regulation
• Immigration
• Capitalism
• Democracy

Which was NOT a reason for immigration to the U.S. in the 1880s (i.e. Gilded Age)?

• Lots of jobs
• Escaping persecution
• Good working conditions
• Escaping poverty

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

• Edison
• Foundry
• Bessemer
• Factory