Chapter 1 Gilded Age

What was the Gilded Age?

• a time when everyone was rushing to find gold and sell it to make money

• a time period of growth in business, industry, and transportation in the US

• a time period of industrialization where many new inventions were created - like the flying car

• a time when Mark Twain decided to write a book about his famous quote

​ ​ (a)   are ​ (b)   who came to the​ (c)   to start ​ ​ (d)   ​

Select the Robbers barons (also known as captains of industry).

• John D. Rockefeller

• Mark Twain

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Henry Ford

Who coined the term "The Gilded Age"?

• Henry Ford

• Upton Sinclair

• Andrew Carnegie

• Mark Twain

Reservations are...

• places where you can hold purchased items for later pickup

• land the government set aside for American Indians

• land the government took from the American Indians

• places where you can start farms and gardens

​ (a)   soldiers are the ​ (b)   American name given to ​ (c)   American soldiers.

What are some characteristics of the great plains? Select all that apply.

• Humid

• Little Rain

• flat

• few trees

• covered in grass

What was the homestead act?

• the government offered 160 acres of land for a small fee; homesteaders lived on the land for 5 years and improved it

• the government offered houses for free; homesteaders had to flip the houses for profit

• an act where settlers were forced to leave their land and live on reservations

• an act where homes were built on the great plains for immigrants to live in for free

An​ entrepreneur is a​ (a)   who creates a ​ (b)  

What is a monopoly?

• a small businesses

• a board game played at family functions

• when a business is so big that it has no competition

• when a business loses funding and has to close