Unit 5 The Gilded Age Study Guide

Front

Which invention was created by Alexander Graham Bell and allowed for quick communication? Options: Telegraph, Telephone, McCormick's Reaper, Bessemer Process

Back

Telephone

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Steel made which "Robber Baron" rich when he sold his company in 1901 for $480 million?

Back

Andrew Carnegie

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American Federation Labor and Knights of Labor are examples of ...

Back

Unions

Front

What is the best definition of a strike?

Back

When employees refuse to work until conditions change.

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How did industrialization affect women and children?

Back

Women and children joined the workforce in larger numbers.

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What is one similarity between the Homestead Strike and Pullman Strike?

Back

The federal government sent troops to intervene or stop the strike.

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What was the main reason people lived in tenements or rundown overcrowded apartments?

Back

They had little income.

Front

He was known as a major entrepreneur in the Oil Industry.

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John Rockefeller

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Based on what you've learned about immigrants, how do you think these immigrants aboard this ship were feeling?

Back

They were hoping for a better life than the one they left.

Front

Which factors "pulled" immigrants to America? Options: starvation, land, violence, jobs, political freedom, religious freedom, land, religious freedom, land, jobs, violence, war, jobs, political freedom, land

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jobs, political freedom, religious freedom, land