Gilded age

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

• Railroads

• Telephone

• Dry farming

• Sewing machine

Many immigrants found work as-

• unskilled labor in factories

• farmers on the Great Plains

• skilled craftsmen

• Educators

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

Which group had a racial hatred of immigrants, since they took jobs from Americans for lower wages. 

• Nativists
• Political bosses
• Miners
• Labor leaders

Why was it called the "Gilded Age"?

• America had many organizations for immigrants to join.

• America looked bright and shiny from the outside, but had problems, like corruption.

• It was beginning to build many large cities, with skyscrapers.

Who termed the coin "Gilded Age?"

• Mark Twain

• George Washington

• Henry Adams

• Abraham Lincoln

What type of person was most commonly an immigrant in the Gilded Age?

• Old German male

• Young Catholic male

• Protestant people from western Europe

• not this one

What was it called when J.P. Morgan invested a lot of money in railroads and wanted a say in how the companies were managed?

• Morganization

• Monopoly

• Taylorism

• still not this one

the control of an entire or most of an industry by one company

• laissez faire

• capitalism

• monopoly

• patent

When a company controls everything from raw materials to the distribution of the product

• horizontal integration

• vertical integration

• trust

• monopoly