Gilded Age

Who was the leading figure in the women's suffrage movement?

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Oprah

• Upton Sinclair

• Susan B. Anthony

In 1889, during the Gilded Age, a Settlement House called Hull House was opened in Chicago. It was designed to help working class women, many recent immigrants, move out of poverty and dependence on others. It sought to address some of the excesses of industry and business. Who founded Hull House?

• Margaret Sanger

• Jane Addams

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

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

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

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

What was the main effect of the rapid urbanization during the Gilded Age?

• Decline in immigration

• Expansion of rural communities

• Growth of tenements and overcrowded cities

• Decrease in factory jobs

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

• Captain of Industry
• Robber Baron
• Philanthropist
• Consolidator

Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, musuems and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 

• geopolitical
• political bosses
• anthropolgy
• philanthropy

The Dawes Act dealt with which group in America?

• Native Americans

• Immigrants

• Chinese

• Settlers

By the 1890's, a new political party emerged. This party was made up largely of farmers and workers.

• Green Party

• Populist Party

• Labor Party