Gilded Age to Progressive Era Review

Which invention allowed Andrew Carnegie to expand the steel industry in the 19th century?

• Steam Engine

• Bessemer Process

• Cotton gin

• Locomotive

Match the following Reformers with the issues they addressed:

• Unsanitary conditions in meat packing

• Lincoln Steffens

• Corruption in state politics

• Upton Sinclair

• Temperance

• Lewis Hines

• Monopolies and corruption

• Ida Tarbell

• Child labor and unsafe work conditions

• Carrie Hatchet

Journalists who exposed some of societies worst problems.

Which of the following was true of the Chinese Exclusion Act?

• 1st significant law banning immigration in USA

• 10 yr ban on Chinese immigration starting 1882

• Competition for jobs on the West Coast due to Panic

• All are true

What was the Knights of Labor?

• Union that supported the 8 hour work day

• Promoted Socialized Medicine

• Promoted Immigration exclusion

• Supported big business and shut down unions

What was the goal of the Populist Political Party?

• Provide 40 acres and a mule to all families

• Return the USA to agricultural, pre-industrial society

• Fight for farmers' rights against monopolies

• All are true

Match the following Reformers with the issues they attacked:

• Union leader, 8 hr workday, higher wages

• Jane Addams

• Unsafe, unhealthy tenement housing

• Eugene Debs

• Protect Nature and Environment

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Aid to immigrants

• Web DuBois

• Fight racism, segregation, inequality

• Jacob Riis

What was the Dawes Act?

• Broke up reservation lands into small plots

• Forced Native Americans onto Reservations

• Allowed Chinese Immigrants land to move West

• Allowed women to own land

The violence at the Haymarket Square Riot in Chicago led to:

• Distrust in unions and shutdown of Knights of Labor

• 8-hour workdays for all workers

• Increased wages for all male workers

• End to child labor

What were Indian Reservations meant to accomplish?

• Kept Natives off land that white settlers wanted

• Allowed Natives to return to living off the land

• Gave Natives the right to participate in local elections

• Kept Natives from assimilating in society