The Gilded Age

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

• the telegraph

• the Bessemer Process

• the Model T

• The light bulb

The Dawes Act was about:

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

• Making monopolies illegal

• assimilation of the American Indians

Who invented the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

• Samuel Morse

The growth of cities is called:

• assimilation

• ruralization

• mechanization

• urbanization

During the Gilded Age, immigrants often lived in parts of cities that were:

• crowded, run down, and filthy

• beautiful and new

• spacious

• the most expensive

Which of the following contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?

• Dry seasons turned fertile land to semi desert and made real estate inexpensive.

• A strong military eliminated attacks by Native Americans.

• The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible.

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  Government funding for irrigation projects made farms more profitable.

The Dawes Act (1887) did which of the following?

• Divided Native American tribal lands into individual holdings.

• Promoted the preservation of Native American cultural identity.

• Granted immediate citizenship to Native Americans.

• Forbade the use of Native American languages in public schools.

Which of the following best describes the main idea of Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth?

• Privately held wealth should be handed over to the government to be redistributed.

• Wealthy individuals should use their wealth for social betterment.

• Using wealth to help others is wrong, since it undermines their self-reliance.

• Accumulating large amounts of wealth violates Christian principles.

What did Thomas Edison invent?

• Uses for peanuts

• Telephone

• Light bulb

• Moving assembly line

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

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