The Gilded Age Quiz

In the United States during the late 1800's, this new form of business could generate large amounts of capital and limited liability for investors

• single proprietorship

• partnership

• join stock company

• corporation

In clashes between unions and business, government often took the side of

• unions

• big business

• neither, laissez faire!

Many wealthy American industrialists of the late 19th century used the theory of Social Darwinism to

• support the labor union movement

• promote legislation establishing a minimum wage

• justify ruthless business practices

• encourage charitable organizations to help the poor

Philanthropy means ...

• suppressing the growth of labor unions

• donating your money to benefit society

• hands off economic activity

• survival of the fittest

The purpose of the Interstate Commerce Act (1887), the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) was to

• reduce imports from foreign nations

• reduce the power of the unions

• increase the power of local governments

• eliminate unfair business practices

This Union allowed only skilled, male workers in it

• Knights of Labor

• American Federation of Labor

• Workers of the World

• Teamsters

The Gilded Age refers to

• the period of reform that took place in the early 1900s

• the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War

• the period of industrialization in the late 1800s that created both positive and negative results

• the period of Prohibition when alcohol was banned

Nativists were people who believed

• People from all nations should be welcomed.

• native born Americans are superior to immigrants

• Quotas should be adopted to limit certain ethnic groups.

• The influx on unskilled people should be restricted.

Which factor attracted many immigrants to travel to America?

• nationalist motives

• sectional differences

• political stability

• ethnic conflicts

Who were the Populists?

• Farmer based political party of the 1890s

• Union that pushed for work place safety laws

• the thing that Mr. Minton was not in high school

• A group of middle class reformers