9/17 Exit Ticket (The Gilded Age)

Which of the following would be topics Labor Unions would advocate for? (select all that apply)

• Better working conditions

• Decreased Wages

• Increased Pay

• A longer work day

What was the purpose of the U.S. government implementing the Dawes Act?

• Assimilating Indians into American society

• Increase tariffs on imported goods

• Eliminate competition within the U.S. economy

• Allow urban areas to expand

Which Gilded Age innovation allowed cities to grow upward?

• Steel Plow

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Skyscrapers

• Lightbulb

Which Gilded Age innovation allowed a longer work day?

• Transatlantic Cable

• Bessemer Process

• Steam Engine

• Lightbulb

Which governmental practice allowed for Monopolies to form?

• Laissez-faire

• Egalitarianism

• Capitalism

• Dictatorship

Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor? (Labor Union)

• Samuel Gombers
• Eugene Debs
• John Sherman
• Woodrow Wilson

Which legislative action was created to encourage western expansion?

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Laissez-faire

• U.S. Constitution

Which of the following increased settlement out west? (choose all that apply)

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Homestead Act

• The Reservation System

• Labor Unions

Match the following Gilded Age entrepreneurs with the industry they are most associated with.

• Oil Industry

• John D. Rockefeller

• Banking Industry

• Andrew Carnegie

• Steel Industry

• J.P. Morgan

• Railroad Industry

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

What was the largest political machine in the U.S.?

• Tenements

• Tammany Hall

• Dawes Act

• The Pentagon