Unit 4 Knowledge Check

What is the electoral college?

• an institution of higher education in Washington, D.C.

  
  

• a committee of Congress that meets every four years

  
  

• a process by which the president and vice president are elected

  
  

• a group of a political party workers who campaign for their party's presidential candidate

  
  

Which answer choice describes the term suffrage?

• the right to vote

  
  

• poverty level

  
  

• illegal hiring practices

  
  

• racial discrimination

  
  

Match the description with the skill that the historians use to analyze the sources.

• close reading

• to understand the deeper meaning of the author's work

  
  

• identifying the source

• to learn how other sources agree or disagree about information in a source

  
  

• identifying the context

• to understand who created a source, the author's point of view, and the author's audience

  
  

• corroborating a source

• to understand what was happening in history at the time the source was created

  
  

Which answer choices characterize the Gilded Age? Select all that apply.

• a decrease in Jim Crow discrimination

  
  

• political corruption

  
  

• a wide gap between rich and poor people

  
  

• rapid industrialization

  
  

Which answer choice best describes a trust?

• a legal requirement that companies make their profits public

  
  

• a type of banking system that loans money

  
  

• an agreement between citizens and the government

  
  

• a business organization that controls an entire industry