Gilded Age 2

Which application of a new technology can be attributed to an invention of Thomas Edison?

• Refrigerated railroad cars allowed food to be transported long distances

• light bulbs made it efficient for factory workers to work at night.

• Diesel engines were used in the production of airplanes.

• Sonar technology was used to track submarines

What innovation made manufacturing more efficient?

• Electricity

• Railroad

• Telephone

• Oil refining

What innovation contributed to the rapid industrialization (growth of factories) of the United States?

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

What is one positive about the laissez-faire politics?

• Immigrants were exploited by political machines

• Entrepreneurs started businesses without government interference

• American workers formed labor unions

• Many immigrants lived in tenements

What is the main idea of the cartoon?

• Political Corruption

• Laissez Faire

• Monopoly

• Social Darwinism

Who accepted bribes in return for favors?

• Industrialists

• Natavists

• Political bosses

• Immigrants

What statement about tenements was true during the Gilded Age?

• The living conditions of tenements improved greatly

• The number of people living in tenements declined

• Many immigrants lived in crowded tenements

• Tenements were torn down and rebuilt

What term attempted to assimilate people of different cultures?

• Americanization movement

• Nativism

• Patronage System

• Labor unions

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

• By homesteading on the Great Plains

• By joining labor unions

• By working for Political bosses

• Through better education

Which development allowed people to live further away from their job?

• Mass transit like subways

• Construction of suspension bridges

• The formation of Monopolies

• Laissez Faire economics