AP US History Gilded Age

What legislation is this cartoon referring to?

• 30 day waiting period for immigration

• Deportation after completion of Transcontinental Railroad

• Immigration Reduction Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

complete control of a product or service; the elimination of fair competition

• Robber Barons
• Bessemer Process
• Monopoly
• Philanthropy

theory that government should not interfere in the operation of the free market

• Cul-de-sac
• Laissez-Faire
• Fleur de Lis
• Achtung

Civil Service Reform was a response to what?

• Political Machines and the Spoils System

• Chinese Immigrants

• Indians (Native Americans)

• The need to regulate State Governments

Who was the oil tycoon who created the Standard Oil Company

• Carnegie

• Morgan

• Rockefeller

• Vanderbilt

The sometimes unethical business practices of some business owners led them to be given this nickname

• Banksters
• Tycoons
• Fat Cats
• Robber Barons

Why were the Industrial Capitalists referred to as "robber barons"?

• Industrialists often took advantage of other people economically.
• Industralists stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
• Industrialists were shared buisness partnerships controlled by a CEO.
• Industralists often formed conglomerates to rob smaller industries.

Which immigrant group provided labor to build the transcontinental railroad from the east to the west?

• Irish

• Chinese

• Plains Indians

• English

What concept does this image refer to?

• political machines

• nativisim

• labor unions

• graft

What does this image say is the controlling factor of decisions by political machines?

• resources

• influence

• power

• money