Gilded Age

During the Gilded Age, tenements were ...

• crowded & unsanitary housing where many immigrants lived

• mud houses that homesteaders built

• nice homes built in the growing urban areas

• crowded dorms for the Pullman Company employees

How did workers try to get better working conditions?

• Moving to the Great Plains

• Joining labor unions

• Switching to the textile industry

• Attending college

Which law gave farmland to citizens willing to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Stamp Act

• New Law

• Homestead Act

Which group provided services for immigrants & the poor in exchange for political support

• labor unions

• captains of industry

• political machines

• muckrakers

Rockefeller practiced horizontal integration by buying...

• slaughterhouses

• oil refining businesses

• steel businesses

• votes from Irish immigrations

Owning every step in the manufacturing process is known as ...

• Exodusters

• monopoly

• vertical integration

• horizontal integration

__________ led to the decline of the buffalo, but an increase in the population of the Great Plains.

• Chinese immigration

• The transcontinental railroad

• Jim Crow laws

• Tenements

Many business owners exploited immigrants because they ...

• were highly educated but wanted to work with their hands

• needed the medical insurance benefits

• worked for very low wages

Which event started because of frustrations about high rents and low wages, but led to a strike of thousands of ARU workers

• Homestead Strike

• Homestead Act

• Pullman Strike

• Pendleton Act

By 1900, more immigrants were coming from ______ than northern/western Europe

• China

• South America

• southern/eastern Europe

• Canada