Gilded Age Test Review #1

Matching: Gilded Age Test Review

• William "Boss" Tweed

• Political boss who controlled NYC politics, accepted bribes, and stole from the city

• Chinese

• The primary immigrant group that worked on the transcontinental railroad

• Thomas Edison

• A person who donates money to charity (ex. libraries and universities)

• Philanthropist

• Created the lightbulb which extended working hours

• Andrew Carnegie

• Owned Carnegie Steel and was known as a philanthropist

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• laissez-faire

• Theory that the economy works best when the government does not interfere with the free market

• nativism

• Someone who supports restrictions on immigration

• monopoly

• This is what political machines offered immigrants in exchange for votes

• John D. Rockefeller

• The man who owned Standard Oil Company which controlled 90% of the nation's oil supply

• employment / jobs

• Another word for big business that controls the market

Matching: Gilded Age Test Review

• bessemer process

• The name of the legislation that gave settlers free/cheap land - it led to the development of the Great Plains

• infrastructure & immigrants

• Technological innovation that made the manufacturing of steel efficient and effective

• Dawes Act

• The name of the legislation that promoted the cultural assimilation of Native Americans

• Homestead Act

• The word that describes politics during the Gilded Age

• corruption

• This is how political bosses were able to obtain votes in the late nineteenth century

Matching: Gilded Age Test Review

• Chinese Exclusion Act

• Many immigrants migrated to the United States in order to have a _____

• extend working hours

• This is the location where "New Immigrants" came from in the late nineteenth century

• labor unions

• This is what businesses could do because of the lightbulb

• Southern & Eastern Europe

• This is what was created to fight for workers' rights (ex. better pay & safer conditions)

• hope for a better life

• the name of the legislation that kept Chinese laborers out in fear of losing jobs

Matching: Gilded Age Test Review

• American Indians

• One of the reasons why monopolies controlled the market was because the government rarely interfered, which is _____

• homesteading

• The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate _____

• laissez faire

• A main reason for settlement of the Great Plains was that Congress allowed people to claim land through ____

• immigrants

• Political bosses often got votes from ______ in exchange for providing them with job opportunities

• rural to urban

• During the late nineteenth century, people moved from _____ in search of factory jobs

Matching: Gilded Age Test Review

• meatpacking

• What jobs did people have in cities?

• factory jobs

• Was was formed to help workers get better pay and safer conditions?

• Irish (Irish Catholics)

• US cattle industry in the late 19th century created the need to process large amounts of cattle making _____ a major industry

• geographic proximity

• Reason on why so many immigrants from Cuba settle in Florida

• labor unions

• Immigrant group that came to America due to a famine in their country