Gilded Age Week 2

designed to prevent companies from engaging in unfair practices that eliminated fair competition

• Gospel of Wealth
• Corporation
• Interstate Commerce Act
• Sherman Antitrust Act

How did corporations deal with Labor Unions who were leading strikes in the late 1800s?

• Cutting wages

• Refusing to negotiate with workers

• Creating blacklists of those striking

• Hiring Strikebreakers

• Closing the company

Many labor unions opposed immigration, arguing that most immigrants

• had no marketable skills

• would work for low wages

• would not join a union

• did not understand English

How did the government’s response to labor unions differ from its response to factory workers when conflicts over labor conditions arose?  

 

 

 

 

• A. The government assisted both the labor unions and the factory owners.

• B. The government supported labor unions, imposing fines when factory owners did not listen to unions.

• C. The government sided with factory owners, undermining union efforts by sending troops.

• D. The government took a hands-off approach, leaving unions and factories to independently resolve issues.

theory that rich were obligated to help communities by giving back in the form of libraries, school, universities but not giving directly to individuals

• National Market
• Philanthropy
• Gospel of Wealth
• Laissez-faire

How did corrupt political machines such as Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall in New York City maintain control during the Gilded Age?

• By breaking up labor unions and collective bargaining

• By providing immigrants with jobs, housing, and police protection in favor for votes

• Through the use of ruthless and ethical business practices

• Through large donations to charitable organizations for immigrants

Which of the following is an example of grafts/kickbacks by political machines?

• using a cartoon to illustrate political fraud

• saying a project costs more than it does and keeping the extra money

• choosing friends or relatives for political office

• using the threat of force to get people to vote for a particular candidate

While European immigrants were processed through Ellis Island, Asian immigrants were processed through__________.

• Angel Island

• Manhattan Island

• Alcatraz Island

• Tammany Island

7) In Urbanization: the people of the United States population was moving from the _ country to the _ country parts of the country.

• urban; rural

• rural; urban

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

• Nativists
• Political bosses
• Miners
• Labor leaders