Gilded Age - Pt. 1

What innovation significantly increased manufacturing output?

• a. Electricity

• b. Telephone

• c. philanthropy

• d. The Elevator

Which idea summarizes the Gilded Age?

• a. Many Americans moved west to farm

• b. The discovery of gold increased western migration

• c. Native Americans were placed on reservations

• d. Industrialists used their wealth to influence politics

What was an important effect of the invention of the light bulb?

• a. Machines were able to be more efficient

• b. Factories could extend working hours

• c. Products were created on the assembly line

• d. Businesses hired more skilled workers

What was one way workers tried to get better working conditions?

• a. By homesteading on the Great Plains

• b. By working for political bosses

• c. By joining labor unions

• d. Through better education

What was one positive of wealthy industrialists?

• a. Paying their workers low wages

• b. Supporting social Darwinism

• c. Philanthropic donations to charity

• d. Working with political machines

Which law expanded competition and eliminated trusts and monopolies?

• a. Interstate Commerce Act

• b. Sherman Antitrust Act

• c. Homestead Act

• d. Dawes Act

Which is NOT a characteristic of a business monopoly?

• a. Controls all of a product’s production

• b. Raises prices

• c. encourage business competition

• d. Puts all competition out of business

Due to the corruption of railroad companies, the U.S. government created this act to regulate railroad companies

• a. Interstate Commerce Act

• b. Transcontinental Act

• c. Dawes Act

• d. Laissez-faire Act

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

• a. Cars

• b. AC

• c. Transcontinental Railroad

• d. Industrialization

How did expansion of railroad transportation most benefit farmers in the United States?

• a. By raising consumer price of agricultural products

• b. By providing farmers with affordable access to distant markets

• c. By increasing the variety of locally grown crops

• d. By encouraging farmers to form the first agricultural cooperatives