Gilded Age 2

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.

• Gilded age

• Roaring Twenties

• Progressive Era

• World War I

What did Thomas Edison invent?

• Uses for peanuts

• Moving assembly line

• Telephone

• Light bulb

How did Cornelius Vanderbilt build his wealth?

• Steel Industry

• Railroad and Shipping Industry

• Automobile Industry

• Oil Industry

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

• Homestead Act

• Stamp Act

• Great Plains Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

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

• Goods were transported across country

• Populations in the west increased

• Railroad reduced the size of the US

• Travel across the country was possible

What is it called when a single person or corporation controls all or most of an industry?

• Anti-Monopoly

• Monopoly

• Anti-Trust

• Trust

What political stance is being referenced in this political cartoon?

• Open immigration

• How the Progressives believed anyone should be allowed into the U.S.

• Limited immigration

• A longer process to become a naturalized U.S. citizen

What is "nativism?"

• The belief in looking out for interests and needs of the native-born population

• The belief that all immigrants should be immediately nationalized to become Americans

• The belief in standing up for the rights of Native American peoples

• The belief that only certain immigrants should become Americans

Which was NOT a cause of westward expansion?

• The Homestead Act of 1862

• assimilation of American Indians

• the transcontinental railroad

• mining gold and other natural resources

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

• expansionism

• mechanization

• gilding

• assimilation