The Gilded Age

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.

Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller 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

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

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

• trust

• union

• monopoly

• industry

Which of the following is a characteristic of the Gilded Age?

• people began moving to rural areas to farm acres of cotton and grain

• the political process was opened up to citizens of different ethnicities and social class

• America expanded westward to accomplish its goal of Manifest Destiny

• the government passed favorable laws to help the growth of big business

Who is responsible for the invention on the light bulb?

• Thomas Edison

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexis de Tocqueville

The invention of the light bulb is significant because

• people were able to stay up later at night to read books

• heat produced from the light bulb was able to heat houses and businesses

• it enabled factory workers to work longer hours resulting in greater production of goods

• it marked the first great scientific discovery of an American

In the late 1800s many territories in the western part of America became states.  This fact can most likely be attributed to the

• influx of immigrants that came to America settled in the western territories

• the transcontinental railroad allowed people to quickly move west

• the Panama Canal allowed ships to efficiently reach the west coast of America

• the Native Americans were relocated to reservations so now American citizens could move onto their former land

One of the benefits of the transcontinental railroad was that

• farmers were able to sell their goods to distant markets

• the business relationship between Mexico and America improved

• the cost of traveling across the country increased by fifty percent

• businessmen were able to ship goods across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe for cheaper prices