Industrialization/Gilded Age/Immigration/Progressive Era

Someone who believes immigrants are inferior to the native population.

• immigrant

• political machine

• nativist

• Anti-Semitism

a person who comes to a country where they were not born, to settle and live

• segregate

• immigrants

• emigrate

• nativists

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 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

Social Darwinism can best be described as the theory that-

• Life consists of competitive struggles in which only the strong survive

• The lowest in society should not be able to reproduce

• Government cannot interfere with the free market system

• States held autonomous power when compared to the federal government

The innovation of ________ helped open up the national market in the 1800s. This was a big part of making the infrastructure of the US so great.

• boats
• railroads
• automobiles 
• horse drawn carriages 

Which immigrant is credited for inventing the light bulb?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

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

Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

• JP Morgan