Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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

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

Who invented the telephone?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Ford

• Samuel Morse

The growth of cities is called:

• assimilation

• ruralization

• mechanization

• urbanization

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

• trust

• union

• monopoly

• industry

"Survival of the fittest" applied to business competition

• Social Gospel
• Gospel of Wealth
• Social Darwinism

The __________ process was a less expensive way to make steel.

• Edison
• Foundry
• Bessemer
• Factory

What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

• Electricity

• Railroad

• Telephone

• Oil refining