Review/Teaching: The Gilded Age

What does the term gilded mean?

• Full of riches and opportunities

• Gaining new land

• Covered in a thin layer of gold

• Made of solid gold

What are some reasons why immigrants came to America during the Gilded Age? (Select all that apply)

• to find jobs

• to escape famine

• to escape persecution

• to be able to vote

What was Ellis Island?

• A settlement house for immigrants

• A check-in-station for immigrants coming to America

• A court case that allowed segregation in public facilities

• A theory that the rich are rich because they're better, and the poor are poor because they are worse

Which of the following is NOT a challenge that immigrants faced when coming to America during the Gilded Age?

• Discrimination

• Finding jobs

• New diseases

• Language barriers

What were tenement houses?

• Large public buildings designed for the rich

• Community centers to help poor people

• Small, cramped apartments for poor people

• Check-in-stations for immigrants coming to America

What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?

• Increased the number of Chinese immigrants

• Prohibited work-seeking Chinese from entering the U.S.

• Prohibited Chinese immigrants from leaving the U.S.

• Prohibited immigrants from entering the U.S.

How did railroads help industrialize America from 1850 to 1900? (Select all that apply)

• transported people and ideas

• transported goods to new markets

• transported new immigrants to America

• transported raw materials

Which is NOT a characteristic of a business monopoly?

• encourage business competition

• rise prices

• put all competition out of business

• control all of a products' production

Business owners generally paid low wages in factories because ______.

• the government regulated wages

• they wanted to maximize worker morale

• keeping wages low meant lower production costs

• labor unions were focused on worker safety rather than pay

Between 1860 and 1900, a primary cause of migration from rural to urban areas was ____.

• inflationary pressure on crop prices

• lack of rural housing as building slowed

• increasing economic opportunity in cities

• government resettlement policies