Sect 3 and 4 industrialization

Nativism

• Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants

• Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture

• Law that prohibited further unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs

• The growth of cities

Chinese Exclusion Act

• Policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants

• Education program designed to help immigrants assimilate to American culture

• Law that prohibited unskilled Chinese immigration in order to reduce competition for jobs

• The growth of cities

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, racism, and poverty.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

Political movement appealing to the masses, became a movement and farmers used this platform during the Gilded Age:

• Populism

• Communism

• Democracy

• Autocracy

Why did farmers want to get off the gold standard and use Silver to back US currency?

• Lowered the value of the dollar, helping struggling farmers in debt

• Raised the value of the dollar, helping businessmen

• Silver was prettier

• Gold is expensive

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies (made them illegal)?

• Interstate Commerce Act 
• Homestead Act
• Sherman AntiTrust Act
• Dawes Act

Which action is best described by this excerpt?

• Elected leaders helped immigrants to assimilate to life in the U.S.

• Political machines justified corruption, while providing benefits to immigrants and their communities

• Progressive leaders protested eminent domain laws in the United States

• Muckrakers tried to uncover government scandals in urban communities

Why are political machines an example of corruption in the Gilded Age?

• They made sure unions could not protect workers from management

• They forced immigrants into the US from Latin America

• They took control of city governments and stole millions of dollars from the cities

• They prevented immigrants from being Americanized

The most famous political machine was Tammany Hall in New York lead by-

• Bill the Butcher

• Andrew Carnegie

• William "Boss" Tweed

• John D Rockefeller

Congress passed the ______ in 1883 that created merit-based exams for most civil service jobs in the federal government.

• Spoils System
• Pendergast Act
• Pendleton Act
• Hawley Act