REEL AMERICA GILDED AGE

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

How did Cornelius Vanderbilt build his wealth?

• Automobile Industry

• Railroad and Shipping Industry

• Oil Industry

• Steel Industry

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

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

• expansionism

• gilding

• mechanization

• assimilation

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

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

• trust

• union

• monopoly

• industry

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

During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in federal support for-

• the growth of big business

• involvement in foreign wars

• the acquisition of foreign territories

• increased temperance regulations

Which Andrew Carnegie quotation best explains why he funded libraries other philanthropic ventures like the one in this photograph?

• "The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise"

• "Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies... and often there is friction between the employer and the employed"

• "The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is... great"

• "This, then, is... the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance"

Which of the following occurred as a result of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

• Workers secured a greater share of company profits

• The influence of labor unions on factory owners was reduced

• The federal government could dissolve business monopolies

• Businesses were required to pay fees to open overseas locations