Lecture 6.2 Gilded Age Quiz

Who coined the term 'The Gilded Age'?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Thomas Nast

• Mark Twain

• Booker T. Washington

Which scandal involved Union Pacific Railroad insiders bribing members of Congress?

• Panic of 1873

• Credit Mobilier Scandal

• Tweed Ring

• Whiskey Ring

Who was the most influential civil rights activist at the end of the 19th century?

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Ida Tarbell

• WEB Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

What event led to the end of Reconstruction and legal racial segregation in the South?

• Great Strike of 1877

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Panic of 1873

• Compromise of 1877

Who was the first African American to gain a PhD from Harvard and helped establish the NAACP?

• Ida Tarbell

• WEB Du Bois

• Rutherford B. Hayes

• Booker T. Washington

Which act established the Civil Service Commission to make appointments to federal jobs based on competitive examinations?

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Panic of 1873

• Pendleton Act

• McKinley Tariff Act

Which organization aimed at ending segregation and inequality?

• NAACP

• WCTU

• Anti-Saloon League

• Tweed Ring

Who worked to help the urban poor by building settlement houses?

• Carrie Chapman Catt

• Ida Tarbell

• Jacob Riis

• Jane Addams

Which organization was led by the Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• Anti-Saloon League

• National American Womens Suffrage Association

• Women's Christian Temperance Union

What was the main purpose of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• To limit the number of Chinese immigrants

• To promote trade with China

• To establish diplomatic relations with China

• To encourage Chinese immigrants to become citizens