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The Gilded Age

Authored by JENN KRANZBERG

Social Studies

11th Grade

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The Gilded Age
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

the telegraph

the Bessemer Process

the Model T

The light bulb

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

The Dawes Act was about:

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

Making monopolies illegal

assimilation of the American Indians

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Who invented the telephone?

Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison

Henry Ford

Samuel Morse

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

The growth of cities is called:

assimilation

ruralization

mechanization

urbanization

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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.

 

Government funding for irrigation projects made farms more profitable.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

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.

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