The Gilded Age

The process of industrialization fundamentally did NOT change the U.S. economy in the later half of the 1800s.

• True

• False

Which factors contributed to industrialization in the U.S. during the later half of the 1800s?

• Westward Expansion, immigration, and banking

• Trade, slavery, and communism

• Immigration, technology, and free enterprise

• Revolutions in Europe, technology, and the abolition of slavery

In part, railroad companies benefited from land grants (free) from the government which encouraged construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s.

• True

• False

A characteristic (feature) of the Gilded Age includes:

• the rise of big businesses

• the abolition of slavery

• the end of immigration from Europe

• the end of all corrupt business and political practices

Two strategies businesses used during the Gilded Age to reduce competition include:

• monopolies and trusts

• unions and free enterprise

• tariffs and taxes

What did workers do in response to the working conditions faced during the Gilded Age?

• Nothing, they were typically powerless

• Began to attend universities

• Immigrated to Canada

• Formed unions

"New" immigrants to America during the late 1800s were typically from:

• Asia and Eastern Europe

• Western Europe and Africa

• Africa and Australia

• Asia and Western Europe

As a result of rapid urbanization (large increase in the population of cities), cities faced issues regarding sanitation, safety, housing, and crowding.

• True

• False

________ _______ controlled city politics, often corrupting officials and enriching themselves at the expense of the public.

• Robber barons

• Political machines

• Democratic republicans

• 'Know Nothings'

The Populist Party of the 1890s formed in large part around the economic difficulties of ________

• formerly enslaved peoples

• women

• immigrants

• farmers