Gilded Age 1.3

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

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

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

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

The Dawes Act was about:

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

• Making monopolies illegal

• assimilation of the American Indians

^{- Founded what became US Steel}

^{- Wrote the Gospel of Wealth}

^{- Used profits in philanthropic activities}

What Gilded Age individual best represents the description above?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• George Pullman

• Thomas Edison