Unit 1 Gilded Age Assessment Review

 Based on the image, what might be a criticism the Grangers would have held towards city streets, like the one pictured?

• 1. Lack of families and social gatherings

• 1. Unavailability of fresh produce

• lack of commerce

• Overcrowding

Transportation was critical in both rural and urban settings.  Based on the images, what form of transportation was critical to both settings at the end of the 19th century?

• horse

• locomotive

• automobile

• rafts

George Westinghouse won a contract complete what project?

• Creating the 1st light bulb

• creating an electric automobile

• to light the Chicago World Fair

• to install the lighting in the factories of the Gilded Age

 The Chicago World’s Fair was a culminating display of Gilded Age technology. Select the technological advances that did NOT affect the daily lives of average Americans the most in the Gilded Age. Select ALL that apply.

• 1. The Transcontinental Railroad

• 1. The handheld camera

• 1. The steel skyscraper

• 1. The phonograph 

Considering Rockefeller’s list of 7 advantages, which “advantage” would labor unions and large segments of the industrial workforce most likely question for authenticity or accuracy?

• 1. (3) increase of number of persons interested in business

• 1. (6) power to give the public improved products at less price and still make a profit for stockholders

• 1. (2) extension of limits of business

• 1. (7) permanent work and good wages for workers

 According to_________________, the cooperation, consolidation, and aggregation of corporations and capital are necessary and advantageous for American business interests. ( Hint: Grammar Matters)

A. Phillip Randolph encouraged African Americans to embrace________ in order to win political gains and economic advancement

Socialism emerged as a movement in America during the Gilded Age in response to which of the following?

• 1. The freedom of African Americans in the South

• 1. The Spanish American War

• 1. The practice of laissez-faire capitalism

• 1. The growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the American Midwest

Nativist resistance to immigration in the time-period was triggered by the reasons below, EXCEPT.

• 1. The different languages spoken by many new immigrants

• 1. The religions of many of new immigrants

• 1. The customs of the new immigrants

• The land that overcrowded

When a labor protest rally near Chicago’s turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police is known as

• Robber Barons

• Haymarket Square

• Captain of Industry

• Transcontinental Railroad