Social Issues of the Gilded Age
Authored by John Robinson
Social Studies
11th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
All of the following are issues labor unions fought for EXCEPT -
shorter hours
lower pay
no child labor
safer working conditions
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Based on the illustration and your knowledge of history, why were these individual immigrating to the United States? Select THREE correct answers.
They were escaping violence and famine in their home countries.
They were looking for jobs and economic opportunities.
Nativism and Social Darwinism were expanding in U.S. cities.
They were escaping religious persecution in their home countries.
U.S. cities had abundant and comfortable tenement buldings.
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USH.3(C) [R]
USH.28(A)
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
Golden Age
Progressive Era
Gilded Age
Roaring Twenties
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USH.3(B) [R]
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Why did labor unions form in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
Workers wages were too high
Government regulations required unions to form
Poor working conditions, low pay and unfair treatment
Reduction of required immigrant regulations
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USH.3(B) [R]
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
The excerpt is from a law passed in 1882. What led Congress to pass this law?
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
State legislation that limited the formation of labor unions
Rising wages for factory workers
Increasing Nativism and anti-immigrant sentiment
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USH.15(C) [S]
6.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Americans increasingly moved into cities over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a movement motivated in large measure by (a) .
industrialization
immigration
affordable housing
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USH.3(B) [R]
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Eleven million people migrated from _________________ between 1870 and 1920, and a majority of the twenty-five million immigrants who came to the United States in these same years moved into the nation's cities.
rural to urban
urban to rural
urban to the suburbs
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USH.3(B) [R]
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