Gilded Age-Progressive Era

In the second half of the 1800s, which development led to the other three?

• a. expansion of political machines

• b. the rapid growth of American cities (urbanization)

• c. increase in crime

• c. development of tenement housind

2. Favoring people born in the U.S. resulted in racial and ethnic discrimination.  This is called?

• a. nativism

• b. pluralism

• c. assimilation

3. The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe

• a. dissatisfied workers who went on strike

• b. Northerners who went South following the Civil War

• c. investigative journalists who exposed societal problems

4. In the late 1800s, the term Robber Baron was used to describe some owners of big businesses primarily because they?

• a. favored free trade

• b. eliminated competition in business using ruthless methods

• c. opposed the formation of corporations

5. Which Progressive Era muckraker’s book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act?

• a. Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities

• b. Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle"

• c. Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives

6. One of the many problems associated with living in urban centers (cities) was?

• a. tenements

• b. row house

• c. new park systems

7. In the late 1800's, problems for workers included?

• a. inadequate technology

• b. clean and safe factories

• c. dangerous working conditions

8. Progressive reforms were aimed at?

• a. discouraging more active participation in government

• b. involving more business in government

• c. promoting reforms to better working and living conditions

9. When a company controls an entire industry, it is called?

• a. scab

• b. a muckraker

• c. a monopoly

10. The individual who created a monopoly over oil was?

• a. Rockefeller

• b. Carnegie

• c. Vanderbilt