APUSH Period 6 Review

This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I
• Progressive Era
• Gilded age
• Roaring Twenties

in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act
• Mexican Reparition Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act

"New Immigrants" that came to the United States in the early 1900s were from which part of Europe?

• South Europe
• NE Europe
• SW Europe
• SE Europe

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• Social Darwinism
• Gospel of Wealth

Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from emtering the country.

• Democrats
• Republicans
• Donald Trump
• Nativists

What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt.  For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.

• Daley
• Grant
• Tilden
• Tweed

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?

• credit mobilier
• political machine
• corrected democracy
• electoral politics

William Graham Sumner was a popular researcher and writer during the Gilded Age.  He believed that government programs to help the poor were useless because, "...a drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be..."  That is, Sumner believed that we all had a certain station or place that was ordained and could not be changed.  This Gilded Age philosophy was called which of the following?

• Evolution
• Monetary Policy
• Social Darwinism
• Welfare Capitalism

Populists supported "free silver" because they believed:

• It would result in deflation
• It would increase bank regulations
• It would result in inflation
• None of the following - they supported continuation of the Gold Standard

Based on your knowledge of the Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?

• The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.
• The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.
• The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.
• Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.