Guilded Age Review

An act that removed Indian land from tribal possession, redivided it, and distributed it among individual Indian families to encourage assimilation

• Dawes Act

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Gospel of Wealth

Corrupt bosses garnered political support (votes) of immigrants by providing social services for immigrants and patronage for their followers

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

U.S. citizens who opposed immigration because they were suspicious of immigrants and feared losing jobs to them

• Nativists

• Political Machines/Bosses

• JD Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

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

• Immigration / urbanization

• capitalism / imperialism

• communism / free enterprise

• reform movements / civil rights

During the Gilded Age, the expansion of _________________________led to corruption in the government but also improvements in basic services and urban infrastructure.

• the railroad

• suffrage

• slavery

• political machines

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

• Automobile

• Airplane

• Telephone

• Transcontinental Railroad

The government encourage Native Americans and immigrants to adopt white culture in a process called ____________.

• cultural diffusion / globalization

• acculturation / industrialization

• assimilation / americanization

• overspeculation / urbanization

Which of the following best characterizes the Gilded Age?

• The discovery of goldfields in the West led to an increase in the amount of money issued for circulation.

• Industrialists used their connection with corrupt government officials for material gain and political power

• In the Deep South a sharp increase in immigration brought a boom in construction and industry

• Small, family-owned farms were bought and consolidated to form large agricultural corporations

Which application of a new technology can attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?

• Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances

• Light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night

• Diesel engines were used in production of airplanes

• Sonar technology was used to track submarines

The photo demonstrates one of the problems with

• overcrowding urban tenements.
• labor union activism in urban areas.
• the overproduction of consumer goods.
• the growth of political machines.