The Gilded Age Checkpoint Quiz

This percentage of immigrants were denied entry into the United States through Ellis Island?

• 50%

• 10%

• 2%

• 5%

This man worked as a social photographer to bring the awful conditions of The Gilded Age to life with the book in 1890, "How the other Half Lives".

• Jacob Ross

• Lewis Hine

• Jane Addams

• Jacob Riis

Immigrants were vital to the growth of the 2nd Industrial Age in America, as they served as...

• elite workers

• cheap labor

• union skilled training

• fresh ideas for businesses

The immigrant symbol of hope and freedom in coming to America was?

• Lady Liberty

• Uncle Sam

• Rosie Riveter

• Statue of Liberty

This stop of Ellis Island was where officials decided whether each person could immediately enter the country or whether that person's needed to be reviewed further?

• The Registry Room

• The Baggage Room

• Legal Inspection

• The Kissing Post

These two immigrant groups were mainly targeted as being aggressive, violent and dangerous to other Americans?

• Chinese & German

• German & Irish

• Irish & Italians

• Italians & Chinese

The number of these increased from 1860 - 1909 by over 100,000 within the U.S. Government?

• Inventions

• Patents

• Cures

• Population

This person invented a new process of Steel in 1865, which made it cheaper & stronger than ever before and that allowed new structures to be built vertically?

• Thomas Edison

• Henry Bessemer

• Elisha Otis

• Henry Ford

This was the "un-official" U.S. Government policy during the Gilded Age, which meant they would be "hand-off", have no regulations on industries & let the Robber Barons operate as they pleased?

• Monopolies

• Patents

• Industrialists

• Laissez-Faire

This man was the richest Robber Baron, whom owned Standard Oil... he used horizontal integration to eliminate his competition & build his massive wealth?

• J.P. Morgan

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Cornelius Vanderbilt