Unit 2 Gilded Age Vocab. Quiz

An organized group that controls a political party in a city and offers services to voters and businesses in exchange for political and financial support

• Political party
• Voter bloc
• Campaign committee
• Political machine

__________ Process makes manufacturing of steel cheap and efficient.

• Bessemer
• Steel vat

• Smelting

• Melting

A term used to describe a business tycoon who used exploitative practices to amass wealth and power during the Gilded Age.

• Captain of Industry

• Robber Baron

• 1%

• Andrew Carnegie

A law, enacted in 1882, that prohibited all Chinese except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials from entering the United States

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Gentlemen's Agreement

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

Nonviolent refusal to continue to work to force an employer to respond to demands.

• Strike

• Quiet Quitting

• Labor Union

• 2 Weeks Notice

A monopoly is

• one company selling the identical product under different names

• one company selling several different products under different names

• Exclusive control or possession of a particular commodity or service in a market, resulting from the absence of competition

• many companies selling similar but not identical products

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

• Nativism

• Social Darwinism

• Philanthropy

• Immigration

A substandard multi-family dwelling in an urban area, usually overcrowded and lacking proper sanitation or safety measures.

• Tenement

• Single Row Housing

• Ward

• Settlement House

The desire to promote the welfare of others, typically through charitable donations or actions aimed at improving society.

• Philanthropy

• Red Cross

• Charity

• Philosophy

Immigration processing center that open in New York Harbor in 1892

• Ellis Island
• Roosevelt Island
• Governor's Island
• Liberty Island