Guided Age & Progressive Age

Which one is not a major issues of the Gilded Age?

• Workers Rights

• Animal Conservation

• Womens Rights

• Environment Conservation

What is the Gilded Age?

• An era when gold, diamonds, rubies, and sapphires became dominant industries that shaped modern America.

• An era when railroads, oil, steel, and coal became dominant industries that shaped modern America.

• An era when gold, diamonds, rubies, and sapphires became dominant industries that shaped modern Europe.

• An era when railroads, oil, steel, and coal became dominant industries that shaped modern Europe.

What is a monopoly?

• A company that has no competition

• A game that takes a long time to play

• A company that goes out of business

• A company that lays off workers

What is the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment?

• direct election of senators

• end political corruption

• voters remove elected officials from office

• graduated income tax

What agency was created to control trade that crossed state lines?

• Civil Service Commission

• Interstate Commerce

• Sherman Antitrust

• Recall Commission

What law was created to prohibit businesses from destroying competition but was used to limit power of labor unions?

• Sixteenth Amendment

• Pendleton Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• Referendum

A "muckraker" is

• A journalist who exposed living conditions in the tenements and factories
• Someone who took bribes 
• someone who fought for women's rights
• a gardener

What was the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment?

• Congress power to pass an income tax

• Congress to eliminate business monopolies

• All voters to vote on bills directly

• Direct election of senators

A standard work hour week during the late 19th and early 20th Century was... *

• 48 hours

• 20 hours

• 40 hours

• 84 hours

Labor unions...

• protect workers of different industries by representing their needs

• are groups of women having babies

• are people who choose to not work

• is the marriage of two workers from the same industry