APUSH Period 6 Review

All the following are true of the developments of the Gilded Age EXCEPT: (LT 6.5)

• patents and corporations allowed businesses to expand by offering legal protections to business owners

• the invention of Thomas Edison replaced gas lights and kerosene lamps

• the invention of Alexander Graham Bell made it possible to communicate without knowledge of mores code

• the government attempted to regulate monopolies to facilitate economic growth

Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in... (LT 6.9)

•  A) Congress passing legislation supporting the formation of unions.

• B) a ban on Irish immigration.

• C) the use of federal troops to keep peace during strikes.

• D) many associating labor unions with radicalism.

The Pullman Strike (1894) resulted in the first instance of…  (LT 6.9)

•  A) management recognition of the right of workers to organize and strike.

•  B) violence during a labor strike.

• C) a united front between urban workers and agrarian Populists.

• D) government use of a federal court injunction to break a strike.

Select the term that best describes the Gilded Age

• The time when everything was covered in gold

• Businesses were struggling financially

• businesses grew at a rapid rate and many problems lied below perceived prosperity

• Businesses achieved unprecedented success with an increase in pay for all workers

Select all the statements that led to an increase in urbanization during the Gilded Age

• Increased immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

• Increased immigration from Mexico

• Increase in factory jobs

• A rise in political machines that provided services in exchange for political support

Thomas Nast’s political cartoon against Boos William Marcy Tweed was a forerunner of which journalistic movement that exposed the abuses and corruption of both the politics and industrialists of the Gilded Age?

• Anti-Masonic

• Mugwuumps

• Social Darwinism

• Muckrakers

Who was responsible for the idea of the "Gospel of Wealth?"

• John Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• John Morgan

• Jay Gould

In this political cartoon, who is in charge of the Senate?

• The US Senators
• the US Constitution
• The owners of monopolies/ industrialists
• the American people

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

• The Immigrants and the Poor

• The Immigrants and Big Businesses

• The Poor and the Chinese

• The Chinese and the Big Businesses

Select the statements that describe the Gospel of Wealth

• A way for wealthy people to justify their wealth

• Urged wealthy people to donate money and give back to the community

• Promoted fair wages for everyone

• Urged wealthy Americans to hoard their wealth