5.2 Reform

What law was created to prohibit businesses from destroying competition but was used to limit power of labor unions?

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Pendleton Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Referendum

A "muckraker" is

• A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories
• Someone who took bribes 
• someone who fought for women's rights
• a gardener

Who exposed the Standard Oil monopoly's unscrupulous business practices?

• Ida Tarbell
• Ida B. Wells
• Nellie Bly
• Lincoln Steffens

Which Muckraker exposed problems with the meat-packing industry in the book 'The Jungle'?

• Jacob Riis
• Ida B. Wells
• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell

What is this a picture of?

• tenements

• melting pot

• skyscrapers

• plantations

Who owned Standard Oil and is considered the wealthiest American of all time?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Samuel Gompers

• JP Morgan

Click on all of the new innovations and inventions being used during The Gilded Age.

• telephones and electric lighting

• automobiles

• horse and buggy

• motion pictures (movies)

• Bessemer steel

Which word means a complete ownership or control of the entire supply of goods or a service in a certain market?

• monopoly

• industry

• colony

• philanthropy

What is something people who belong to a Union might do?

• go on strike

• call on immigrants to take your job

• blacklist you

• fight for an 8 hour work day

• fight for better wages and working conditions

During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the U.S. found work as ?

• Educated professionals

• Factory workers

• Scientists

• Lawyers