GILDED AGE

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

A "muckraker" is

• A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories
• Someone who took bribes 
• someone who fought for women's rights
• a gardener

This is the political reform that allowed people to vote directly on a proposed new law

• primary

• initiative

• referendum

• recall

What is the Gilded Age?

• An era when gold, diamonds, rubies, and sapphires became dominant industries that shaped modern America.

• An era when railroads, oil, steel, and coal became dominant industries that shaped modern America.

• An era when gold, diamonds, rubies, and sapphires became dominant industries that shaped modern Europe.

• An era when railroads, oil, steel, and coal became dominant industries that shaped modern Europe.

What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?

• Telephone

• Light bulb

• Moving assembly line

• Uses for peanuts

What did Thomas Edison invent?

• Uses for peanuts

• Telephone

• Light bulb

• Moving assembly line

What did Henry Ford invent?

• Moving assembly line

• Uses for peanuts

• Light bulb

• Telephone

How did Cornelius Vanderbilt build his wealth?

• Automobile Industry

• Railroad and Shipping Industry

• Oil Industry

• Steel Industry

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Stamp Act
• Great Plains Act
• Homestead Act

Which is NOT a conclusion that can be made about the transcontinental railroad?

• Goods were transported across country
• Travel across the country was possible
• Populations in the west increased
• Railroad reduced the size of the US