Gilded Age STAAR Review - 25

What resulted from the event shown in the image?

• It led to increased support for women's suffrage and the right to vote.

• It prompted immediate improvements in factory working conditions nationwide.

• It caused a significant decline in the garment industry to New York City.

• It resulted in stricter building and fire safety codes to protect workers.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each senator shall have one vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures. - 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 1913

What significant change did the 17th Amendment make to the process of selecting U.S. Senators?

• It established the direct election of U.S. senators by the people of each state.

• It allowed the president to appoint U.S. senators with the approval of each state.

• It changed the term length of U.S. senators to six years.

• It gave each U.S. senator one vote in the senate.

Which of the following statements BEST reflects the significance of this innovation show in the image in the context of the late 19th and early 20th century?

• Edison's light bulb was a novelty item that had little impact on industrial practices of the time.

• Edison's light bulb provided a safer and more efficient source of light than gas lamps, transforming domestic and industrial activities.

• While the invention of the light bulb was significant in transforming city life its real impact was in brining light to rural areas.

• While innovative, the light bulb invention failed to become widespread due to the high cost of electricity during Edison's time.

This table lists the effects that the growth of big business had on society in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Identify the causes and effects that are missing from the table. 3 in each.

Groups:

(a) Cause

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(b) Effect

• Robber barons used ruthless tactics to build buisniesses by limiting competition

• Tariffs were used to shield businessess from foreign competition.

• Fear of monopoly power led the government to regulate businesses.

• Big business needed an increasing amount of labor

• Many people moved from rural areas to urban centers.

• The government wanted to support the growth of U.S. Businesses.

In 1882, the government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.

• Nativist Act

• Mexican Repatriation Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

The Pendleton Act of United States in 1883 decided that government jobs should be awarded on the basis of merit (test) instead of political affiliation.

• direct voting

• civil service reform

• political machines

• civil labor unions

Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from entering the country.

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Robber barons

• Nativists

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the Book, How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida Wells

• Jacob Riis

What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?

• credit mobilier

• political machine

• corrected democracy

• electoral politics

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

• Captain of Industry

• Robber Baron

• Philanthropist

• Consolidator