Gilded Age & Progressive Era (AICE USH)

During what era was there an in increase in corruption, big business, immigration, and urbanization?

• Gilded Age

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction

• Great Depression

During the Gilded Age, there was an increase in ________________ and _________________ as people moved to U.S. cities looking for economic opportunities.

• Immigration / urbanization

• socialism / urbanization

• equality / capitalism

• reform movements / civil rights

Andrew Carnegie was an entrepreneur and a ______________ because he donated money to libraries and universities.

• robber baron

• philanthropist

• muckraker

• reformer

What innovation helped people settle the Great Plains and opened new markets in the west?

• Automobile

• Airplane

• Telephone

• Transcontinental Railroad

Americans who were anti-immigration due to fear of losing jobs to immigrants were called -

• muckrakers

• nativists

• imperialists

• industrialists

The ratification of this amendment granted suffrage to all genders.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer's safety as a response to Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"?

• Natural Park Service

• Federal Reserve

• Pure Food & Drug Administration

• Environmental Protection Agency

What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

People like Upton Sinclair were _____________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.

• supporters of political machines

• industrialists

• nativists

• muckrakers

The growing political influence of this group led to the ratification of the 18th and 19th amendments?

• African-Americans

• Women

• Native Americans

• Immigrants