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REEL AMERICA GILDED AGE

Authored by Chris Lyon

History

11th Grade

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REEL AMERICA GILDED AGE
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

How did Cornelius Vanderbilt build his wealth?

Automobile Industry

Railroad and Shipping Industry

Oil Industry

Steel Industry

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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.

Society was anti American

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

expansionism

gilding

mechanization

assimilation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Andrew Carnegie and Cornelius Vanderbilt 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

A type of economic system

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Workers stick together to fight for better pay and working conditions. This is known as a:

trust

union

monopoly

industry

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?

The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation

Industrialists used their connections with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power

In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry

Small, family-owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations

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