Gilded Age Vocab Quiz

What is the process of people of one culture merging into another culture called?

• Melting pot

• Assimilation

• Nativism

• Association

industrialists who established big businesses in the late 1800s. This term was used

positive way

• Immigrants

• Labor leaders

• Captains of Industry

• Philantrapist

What term describes an area dominated by one ethnic or racial group?

• Ghetto

• Da Hood

• Tribe

• Tennement

Who coined the term "Gilded Age"?

• Andrew Carnegie

• Mark Twain

• John D. Rockefeller

• Henry Ford

What is the term for a person who settles in a new country?

• Migrant

• Immigrant

• Native

• Alien

What does industrialization refer to?

• Growth of industry

• Cultural assimilation

• Political reform

• Economic decline

What was the Industrial Revolution's main effort in Britain in the 1700s?

• To increase agricultural production

• To increase production using machines

• To promote cultural diversity

• To establish political machines

What is horizontal consolidation?

• Merging firms in the same business

• Increasing cultural diversity

• Establishing labor unions

• Promoting laissez-faire economics

What does laissez-faire economics advocate?

• Government control of businesses

• Government non-interference in private businesses

• Complete control of a product

• Favoring native-born citizens over immigrants

What is a monopoly?

• Control of labor union

• Complete control of a product/service

• Partial control of a product or service

• Control of a political machine