Gilded Age Review

This photograph was taken in Chicago, Illinois, in 1884. The invention of a new process for ___________________________ allowed for a new type of building, the ___________________________. This new technology, along with the increased demand for housing and industrialization, led to ___________________________ and cities like Chicago experiencing rapid increases in population.

• steel; skyscraper; urbanization

• glass; apartment; suburbanization

• concrete; warehouse; ruralization

• wood; cottage; depopulation

1st Industrial Revolution :: ___________________________ : 2nd Industrial Revolution ___________________________

• steam engine; electricity

• electricity; steam engine

• telephone; steam engine

• railroads; telegraph

Many labor unions formed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries because —

• recent immigrants had taken the highest paying jobs.

• industrial leaders wanted workers to gain control of the factories.

• poor working conditions had resulted in many premature deaths.

• reformist governments required factories to form working organizations.

Which of the following was an organized union of skilled laborers?

• American Federation of Labor

• Congress for Industrial Organization

• Apprentices for Free Labor

• Association of Railroad Careers

Why did many labor unions form in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

• workers' wages were too high

• government regulation required unions to form

• poor working conditions

• reduction of required immigrant regulations

This excerpt is from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; . . . This is no fairy story and no joke; the meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one—there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit. There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. . . . Some of it they would make into “smoked” sausage—but as the smoking took time, and was therefore expensive, they would call upon their chemistry department, and preserve it with borax and color it with gelatin to make it brown. . . . - Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906 This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then answer Part B. Part A What act was passed as a result of the publication of The Jungle?

• The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

• Pure Food and Drug Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Clayton Anti-Trust Act

What city had high concentration of tenements during the Gilded Age?

• New York City

• Boston

• Philadelphia

• Chicago

Why were the new immigrants, who came to America in the late 1800s, discriminated against more than earlier immigrants?

• They were richer.

• They had a different cultural background.

• They contained more criminals.

Which region of the United States had the GREATEST urban growth in the late 1800s?

• Northeast

• Southeast

• Southwest

• Northwest

All of the following were difficulties faced by immigrants in large cities EXCEPT —

• overcrowding

• crime

• famine

• language barriers