Gilded Age Vocabulary Test

What term describes the process by which immigrants or other minority groups are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society?

• Assimilation
• Immigration
• Philanthropy
• Industrialization

What term is used for the economic growth and transformation of societies from agrarian to manufacturing-based, particularly during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? Not growing things, but making them in factories.

• Industrialization
• Urbanization
• Homestead
• Social Darwinism

What term describes the large-scale farming region in the central United States, often characterized by grasslands and agriculture?

• Great Plains
• Rural
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Tenement

What term refers to a situation where a single company or entity has exclusive control over a particular market or industry?

• Monopoly
• Philanthropy
• Trend
• Gilded

What term is used to describe the philosophy that applies the principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest to societies and economics? The richer you are, the more evolved you are

• Social Darwinism
• Manifest Destiny
• Immigration
• Reservations

What term refers to the legal document granting a settler ownership of a plot of land, often used in the context of the U.S. Westward Expansion?

• Homestead
• Tenement
• Trend
• Gilded

What term describes the process of growing the population in cities and expansion of cities, often due to migration and industrial growth?

• Urbanization
• Transcontinental Railroad
• Reservations
• Rural

What term refers to the concept in American history that suggests it was the destiny of the United States to expand its territory across the entire continent?

• Manifest Destiny
• Gilded
• Philanthropy
• Industrialization

What term is used to describe the economic and social condition marked by extreme wealth for some and poverty for many, often illustrated in American society during the late 19th century? Mirroring the idea that the US is covered in a thin layer of Gold

• Gilded
• Trend
• Rural
• Monopoly

What term refers to a building or group of buildings in a city where multiple families reside, often under challenging living conditions, typically found in urban areas during the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

• Tenement
• Homestead
• Great Plains
• Transcontinental Railroad