Gilded Age and Progressive Era Review

Designed to prevent companies from engaging in unfair practices that eliminated fair competition

• Gospel of Wealth
• Corporation
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act

What were the apartment style houses that many immigrants lived in called?

• Tenements

• Condos

• Shack

• Hotel

What statement about tenements was true during the Gilded Age?

• The living conditions of tenements improved greatly

• The number of people living in tenements declined

• Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements

• Tenements were torn down and rebuilt

What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

• By homesteading on the Great Plains

• By joining labor unions

• By working for Political bosses

• Through better education

Americans who were anti-immigration due to the fear of losing jobs to immigrants were called-

• Bootlegger

• Monopolies

• Communists

• Nativists

This type of economic system during the Gilded Age allowed for the growth of big business and monopolies-

• Monopolies

• Nativism

• New Deal

• Laissez Faire (hands off)

What innovation helped people settle the Great Plains and opened new markets in the west?

• Cars

• Transcontinental Railroad

• AC

• Industrialization

Which of the following was NOT a problem labor unions fought for?

• shorter hours
• lower pay
• no child labor
• safer working conditions

Process which made steel more affordable and profitable.

• Laissez-faire

• Interstate Commerce

• Bessemer

• National Market

This political party proposed an increase in the money supply, a graduated income tax, and a federal loan program.

• Green Party

• Populist Party

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party