Gilded Age Review Game

What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

• By homesteading on the Great Plains

• By joining labor unions

• By working for Political bosses

• Through better education

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as-

• Educated professionals

• skilled workers

• Factory workers

• Scientists

Which island did European immigrants register to live in the U.S?

• Galveston
• Long
• Ellis
• Angel

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• Interstate Commerce Act 

• Homestead Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Dawes Act

Which is not a characteristic of a monopoly?

• Control of an entire industry

• allows for more competition

• rising prices

• puts all competition out of business

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

• expansionism

• gilding

• mechanization

• assimilation

The growth of cities is called:

• assimilation

• ruralization

• mechanization

• urbanization

Nativists oppose...

• Business regulation
• Immigration
• Capitalism
• Democracy

Which was NOT a reason for immigration to the U.S. in the 1880s (i.e. Gilded Age)?

• Lots of jobs
• Escaping persecution
• Good working conditions
• Escaping poverty

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

• Edison
• Foundry
• Bessemer
• Factory