Gilded Age Practice Quiz

What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

• Electricity

• Railroad

• Telephone

• Oil refining

What innovation contributed to the development of a new form of selling and distributing goods though the Sears Mail Order Catalog?

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

Many immigrants found work as-

• unskilled labor in factories

• farmers on the Great Plains

• skilled craftsmen

• Educators

Which idea summarizes the Gilded Age?

• Many Americans moved west to farm

• Native Americans were placed on Reservations

• The discovery of Gold decreased population

• Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics

What is one positive outcome of the laissez-faire politics?

• Immigrants were exploited by political machines

• Entrepreneurs started businesses without government interference

• American workers formed labor unions

• Many immigrants lived in tenements

What was an important effect of the invention of the light bulb?

• Machines were able to be more efficient

• Products were created on the assembly line

• Factories could extend working hours

• Businesses hired more skilled workers

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Political Corruption

• Laissez Faire

• Monopoly

• Social Darwinism

What idea is the cartoon addressing?

• Monopoly

• Laissez Faire

• Americanization

• Industrial Revolution

What factor most led to the growth of the steel industry?

• Laissez faire economics

• New production techniques

• Labor unions

• The need for a new building material

Who accepted bribes in return for favors?

• Industrialists

• Natavists

• Political bosses

• Immigrants