Gilded Age

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

The transcontinental railroad was mostly built by:

• Chinese and Irish immigrants because they worked for low wages.

• Americans who moved west from large cities in the east.

• Indians

Which was NOT a cause of westward expansion?

• The Homestead Act of 1862

• mining gold and other natural resources

• assimilation of American Indians

• the transcontinental railroad

This was a major factor in the success of the Wheat Belt in the late 1800's:

• mechanization

• mining

• genetic engineering

The process of blending American Indians into the rest of American culture was called:

• expansionism

• gilding

• mechanization

• assimilation

This invention created steel, which was used to build railroads and skyscrapers:

• the telegraph

• the Bessemer Process

• the Model T

• The light bulb

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller created monopolies. What is a monopoly?

• When one person or company controls a market

• a board game created by Rockefeller and Carnegie

• a law that gave them advantages in business

______ invented the ______, a car that was created on the assembly line and inexpensive enough for regular Americans to buy.

• Alexander Graham Bell, Rolls Royce

• Henry Ford, Model T

• Thomas Edison, Tesla

The Dawes Act was about:

• ending the "spoils system" with tests for the civil service

• Making monopolies illegal

• assimilation of the American Indians

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller were know as robber barons because:

• they were like nobility, but they trampled on people to get rich.

• they robbed trains to get rich.

• they made their fortune by working through the night.