Gilded Age Review Quiz

The Dawes Severalty Act dealt with which group in America?

• Native Americans

• Immigrants

• Chinese

• Settlers

What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Marbury v Madison

• Roe v Wade

This period, during 1877 to 1900, is known for the rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.

• World War I

• Progressive Era

• Gilded Age

• Roaring Twenties

Under this policy in 1887, the U.S. Government sold Native Americans land in order to farm.

• Dawes Act

• Ghost Dance

• Trail of Tears

• Laws Act

Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

During the Gilded age, workers came together to work for better pay, working conditions, and less hours. Leaders such as Samuel Gompers help led many of this workers in....

• Philanthropy
• Labor Unions
• Political Bosses
• Credit Unions

What was a city government marked by corruption and bribery called?

• credit mobilier

• political machine

• corrected democracy

• electoral politics

A 1,912-mile continuous railroad line that connects the existing eastern U.S. rail network with the Pacific coast.

• Alaska Rail

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Hull House

• Union Pacific

The term gilded means to cover something with a thin layer of...

• gold

• silver

• copper

• bronze

Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?

• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Stamp Act
• Great Plains Act
• Homestead Act