The Gilded Age and the Industrial Revolution

How were companies able to get so "big" and powerful? Choose 2.

• By paying their workers more money

• By creating monopolies and trusts

• Better working conditions for their employees.

• Lack of government regulations

Which group of people faced discrimination due to the idea of NATIVISM?

• Women

• Immigrants

• African Americans

• Elderly

What is a main reason immigrants came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• Did NOT want religious freedom

• Hoped for economic opportunity (to make money)

• Wanted LESS diversity

• Wanted to live more simply

What challenges did immigrants face in the US?

• They caught diseases

• Had trouble learning the language/faced prejudice

• Uncomfortable in the large homes in the US

• Difficult to study for the citizenship test

Which factor most contributed to the living conditions faced by many immigrants during the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• new measures for containing the spread of diseases

• widespread migration to the suburbs by immigrants

• increased social services for qualified individuals and families

• lack of government regulations and standards for public housing

What would someone who believed in laissez-faire capitalism most likely say?

• "The government should regulate business."

• "Workers need laws to protect them from being exploited."

• "It is Congress's job to make sure consumers are treated fairly."

• "The government should not restrict the activities of corporations."

Why were nativists worried about a large influx of immigrants in the late 1800s to the United States? Choose 2.

• They believed immigrants would receive better treatment from the federal government

• They thought immigrants from southern and eastern Europe as well as China to be threats to American jobs

• They feared immigrants would gain control of the city government

• They feared immigrants brought in "new" ideas, disease, and poverty.

Match the following industrialist with his correct description.

• -founded Standard Oil

  -created a monopoly on oil

  -Richest man to ever live

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• -established the banking industry

  - financier

  - buys out Carnegie in 1901

• JD Rockefeller

• - railroad industry

  - made a fortune on shipping goods

  -promoted the use of railroads

• JP Morgan

• - takes over steel industry

  - wrote the "Gospel of Wealth"

  - used the Bessemer process

• Andrew Carnegie

Pull Factor

• condition that attracts people to move to a new areadition that drives people from their homeland

• The process where a minority group adopts customs of a prevailing group over time.

• condition that drives people from their homeland

• Production method that breaks down a complex job into a series of smaller tasks

Innovation

• An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages

• The process where a minority group adopts customs of a prevailing group over time

• The process of bringing new methods, products, or ideas into use

• The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry