The Gilded Age: Railroads, Farmers, Populists, & Big Businesses

All of the following farmers faced EXCEPT...

• Debt with high interest rates

• Railroads charging higher fares to farmers

• Drought

• Little to no representation in government

• Low Interest rates

Farmers would often plant more crops to secure their debt. The problem with this is that the greater the supply of crops available, the ​ (a)   the demand for the crops. This is means that there is a ​ (b)   in price of the crops.​

• lower
• decrease
• Increase
• higher

The ​lower the ​ (a)   , the ​ (b)   the demand is of an item. This means the price is higher.

• supply
• higher

If the price of an item is very high and the demand for an item is...

• very high

• Very Low

Match the following::

• debt with high interest rates. For example: a drought

• The demand for beef leads to...

• Munn vs. Illinois

• This leads to the end of the open range

• barbed wire

• Many farmers loss their land due to...

• A new industry being creating...cowboys and cattle drives

• Munn vs. Illinois leads to the creation of...

• The Interstate Trade Commission

• The Grange Movement's greatest success was this court case...

Asian immigrants were mostly like to go to the ​ (a)   processing center. European immigrants were most likely to go to the ​ (b)   processing center.

• Angel Island
• Ellis Island

All of the following people did NOT want immigrants coming to the United States

• Nativist

• People who are xenophobic

• Business owners

Immigrants that the chart is displaying came to America to...

• Work in factories in the Northeast

• Work on the Railroads

• Take advantage of the Homestand Act

• To take advantage of the Dawes Act

The immigrants that the political cartoon is illustrating shows that American citizens were upset that these immigrants were taking which jobs from them?

• Farming jobs

• Railroad jobs

• Factory Jobs

• Mining jobs

Reorder the following:

• An increase in immigrants caused the construction of tenement housing

• Immigrants were pulled to the US by the opportunity to work in factories

• The government opened stations to process immigrants before they were allowed to enter the US

• The availability of jobs and new resources led to industrialization in the US

• Settlement houses were opened in urban areas as a way to assimilate immigrants into American culture.