Industrial Revolution & Gilded Age Main Test

What word is associated with the image?

• Nativism

• Tenement

• Settlement House

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.

The transcontinental railroad was mostly built by:

• Chinese and Irish immigrants because they worked for low wages.

• Americans who moved west from large cities in the east.

• Indians

The process of blending American Indians into the rest of American culture was called:

• expansionism

• gilding

• mechanization

• assimilation

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

• the telegraph

• the Bessemer Process

• the Model T

• The light bulb

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, many factories were built along rivers because

• water was a major source of irrigation

• people liked to swim at lunchtime

• water power was used to power factory machines

Which of the following was NOT associated with early factory working conditions?

• Low wages
• Safe working conditions
• Dangerous working conditions
• Widespread pollution

The Gilded Age is infamous for

• paying workers high salaries

• promoting women and African Americans to positions of leadership

• businessmen bribing government officials

• the rapid advancements in the field of science

The Homestead Act resulted in

• Catholics moving to California to escape persecution on the East Coast

• businessmen paying employees higher wages to stay in the East and work in their factories

• many people selling their possessions and moving west to claim land

• improved relations with Native Americans

Freedom for businesses and consumers in the economy is called

• socialism

• totalirarianism

• communism

• free enterprise