STAAR Folder Quiz pg. 15-24, Gilded Age

What allowed for improvement in transportation and availiability to goods in the late 1800s?

• Boats

• Railroad

• Planes

• 18-wheelers

Which of these is NOT a way that political machines gained votes?

• Improving urban infrastructure

• Finding jobs and housing for immigrants

• Door-to-door campaigns

• Bribes and corruption

Which law was passed to ensure civil service reform and merit-based hiring for government jobs?

• Sherman Anti-Trust Acts

• Patriot Act

• Civil Rights Act

• Pendleton Act

Urbanization was a direct effect of ___________

• Industrialization

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Good farming land

• Cheaper corn

Which of these is NOT an innovation from the Gilded Age?

• Telegraph

• Lightbulb

• Bessemer Process

• Model T

Monopolies were a result of a lack of regulations on business from the government. What is this policy called?

• Laissez-faire

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Tenements

Which groups were started to combat unfair treatment of workers?

• Roughriders

• Tuskegee Airmen

• Flying Tigers

• Labor Unions

Which of these answer choices does NOT describe the living situation of many immigrants in cities during the Gilded Age?

• Tenements were overcrowded

• Ethnic enclaves formed in cities

• Houses were full with expensive items

• Lived near Angel and Ellis island

Which of these answer choices was NOT an effect of nativist tendencies?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Increased social tension with more diversity

• Jane Addams' Hull House

• Acceptance of Native American lifestyles