WorksheetsThe Gilded Age - 2018
Total questions: 54
Worksheet time: 1hrs 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
One reason nativists worried about influx of immigrants in 1880s...
a)
Feared immigrants gain control of city and state governments
b)
Believed immigrants receive preferential treatment from federal government and receive land
c)
Thought country's ports could not handle increasing numbers of immigrants and exports
d)
Considered immigrants from southern and eastern Europe a threat to traditional American cultural values
2.
Fact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century?
a)
Working conditions
b)
Racial segregation
c)
Class discrimination
d)
Growing prosperity
3.
What issue split Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois?
a)
Washington's lesser emphasis on attainment of political and civil rights
b)
Washington's unwillingness to accept advice from anyone other than African Americans
c)
DuBois's belief that African Americans needed to achieve economic self-sufficiency
d)
DuBois's minimization of importance of education
4.
How Sears, Roebuck & Co. transformed late nineteenth-century economy?
a)
Expanded market for consumer goods
b)
Applied new technologies in their stores
c)
Advertised services of new companies
d)
Employed sales associates in rural locations
5.
How did vertical integration benefit companies such as Carnegie Steel?
a)
Allowed labor unions to participate in decision-making
b)
Controlled production and distribution processes
c)
Invested in health and education of employees
d)
Included local politicians on boards of directors
6.
Technological development most revolutionized US steel industry?
a)
Electrification
b)
Vulcanization
c)
Steam power
d)
Bessemer Process
7.
How did the Knights of Labor differ from the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
a)
KoL advocated strikes as tactic
b)
KoL opened membership to women, blacks, and ethnic minorities
c)
KoL developed stronger relationships with policymakers at federal level
d)
KoL focused on working conditions and workplace safety instead wages and benefits
8.
Construction of Central Pacific Railroad (part of transcontinental railroad) relied largely on who?
a)
Chinese
b)
German
c)
Irish
d)
Mexican
9.
In their work with immigrants, settlement houses mainly addressed which need?
a)
Occupational skills
b)
Spiritual guidance
c)
Affordable housing
d)
Cultural adjustment, daycare, and educational training
10.
US Cavalry's buffalo soldiers shared what experienced with most African Americans of their time?
a)
Earned respect for skill and valor
b)
Segregated because of race
c)
Beneficiaries of affirmative action
d)
Not permitted to own property
11.
Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo shared what common experience?
a)
Beneficiaries of peace treaties with US government
b)
Resisted efforts to displace their peoples from traditional homelands
c)
Popular figures in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
d)
Opposed tactics of Apache and Cheyenne
12.
Which summary of massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 is the most most accurate?
a)
Provided a rationale for creation of Bureau of Indian Affairs
b)
Fostered congressional dialogue that led to passage of Indian Reorganization Act
c)
Represented culmination of US government's military operations against native peoples.
d)
Prompted widespread public hostility toward Sioux Indians
13.
For helping those in poorest districts of Chicago, among Polish, Italian, Mexican, and other immigrants, she received Nobel Peace Prize (settlement houses).
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Eleanor Roosevelt
14.
The Farmer's Alliance and the Grange, both founded during the Gilded Age, stood for additional government regulation of trade and creating the conditions for more political power and economic well being for farmers (as compared to industrialists). What 1890s group was founded, supporting these ideas, and attacking the Gold Standard?
a)
Progressives
b)
Free Soil Party
c)
IWW
d)
Populists
15.
What was the name of the law, passed in 1883 during the Gilded Age, that sought to reform government? It required government applicants to take competitive exams so that they would be hired based upon merit rather than political affiliation. This law was passed in response to widespread political corruption and the assassination of President Garfield.
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Pendelton Civil Service Act
c)
Underwood Tariff Act
d)
Celler-Kefaufer Act
16.
In 1886 in the Wabash Cases, during the Gilded Age, the Supreme Court limited the ability of the state to set railroad rates on interstate commerce (rail traffic crossing state boundaries). The court clarified that the ability to regulate interstate commerce was the province of the Congress. in 1887, Congress passed what law, in part, because of the Wabash Cases?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Celler-Kefauver Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Sherman Antitrust Act
17.
What Progressive Era Muckraker wrote about the terrible living conditions in cities in the book The Shame of the Cities that had been created during the Gilded Age?
a)
Lincoln Steffens
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Ray Stannard Baker
18.
What was the name of the company and the railroad scandal, during the Gilded Age, through which the government paid tens of millions of unearned dollars. NIne Congressmen were implicated in teh scandal and the sitting Vice Presdient was forced to remove himself from the Republican ticket for possible reelection.
a)
Homestead
b)
Pullman
c)
Credit Mobilier
d)
Union Pacific
19.
What New York politician ran a political machine in New York City beginning in 1869, during the Gilded Age, that was incredibly corrupt. For example, a projected cost of $250,000 for a courthouse turned in to $13,000,000 because of kickbacks and bribes.
a)
Daley
b)
Grant
c)
Tilden
d)
Tweed
20.
What was a city government marked by corruption, bribery, and Kickbacks (common during the Gilded Age) called?
a)
credit mobilier
b)
political machine
c)
corrected democracy
d)
electoral politics
21.
Congressional action taken in 1890, during the Gilded Age, that made "contracts, conspiracies, and combinations" that restrained free trade illegal. This was done to stop the abusiv practices of organized trusts in oil, sugar, tobacco...
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Celler-Kefauver Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Interstate Commerce Act
22.
Congressional action taken in 1887, during the Gilded Age, to stop the unfair and abusive practices of railroad companies. That is, to stop railroad companies from giving low prices to large shippers (Corporations) and high prices to farmers who had no other shupping options.
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Celler-Kefauver Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Interstate Commerce Act
23.
A group of companies in the same industry giving day-to-day operation of their companies over to a single board of directors.
a)
monopoly
b)
corporation
c)
trust
d)
horizontal Integration
24.
Standard Oil was founded in 1870 by John d. Rockefeller (during the Gilded Age). Established as a trust, it gained monopolistic pricing power in oil and kerosene and was able to demand and receive exceptionally favorable shipping rates from railroads. In 1905, during the Progressive Era, who attacked Standard Oil as a too pwoerful monopoly?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Harvey Wiley
d)
Andrew Carnegie
25.
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?
a)
Margaret Sanger
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d)
Susan B. Anthony
26.
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?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Ida Wells
d)
Jacob Riis
27.
The theory used by the wealthy to justify their wealth and treatment of the poor.
a)
Darwinism
b)
Natural Selection
c)
Selectionism
d)
Social Darwinism
28.
This book espouses the view that the wealthy have a moral obligation to improve society with their wealth and to be philanthropic.
a)
How the Other Half Lives
b)
The Social Gospel
c)
The Gospel of Wealth
d)
The Capitalists' Guide to Wealth
29.
Political Machines were symbols of Gilded Age corruption because:
a)
They relied on immigrants.
b)
They engaged in immoral and illegal activities to get and maintain power
c)
They were exclusively run by the wealthy
d)
They addressed industrial-era demands in urban areas
30.
New markets were expanded by all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
innovations in transportation
b)
new methods of advertising
c)
increasing immigration
d)
increased government regulations
31.
The first measure aimed at ending the spoils system was the:
a)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
c)
Interstate Commerce Act
d)
Federal Anti-Tolerance Act
32.
Receiving a portion of money illegally as the result of a confidential, secret agreement describes:
a)
Graft
b)
a Bribe
c)
Patronage
d)
a Kickback
33.
Populists supported a bimetallic standard because they believed:
a)
It would result in deflation
b)
It would increase bank regulations
c)
It would result in inflation and better prices for farmers for grain
d)
None of the following - they supported continuation of the Gold Standard
34.
If one regards the industrialists as "Robber Barons," then one would argue all of the following EXCEPT:
a)
They amassed great wealth at the expense of their workers
b)
They engaged in scrupulous activities such as cut-throat competition
c)
They sought to create monopolies in their respective industries.
d)
They contributed great fortunes to philanthropic interests
35.
Political corruption in the Gilded Age occurred at every level for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
a)
Big businessmen used their wealth to influence politicians
b)
Immigrants brought revolutionary ideas such as Socialism into the political system
c)
The power of machines at the local level influenced state and federal elections
d)
Spoilsmen were given jobs without qualifications
36.
The Gilded Age described the period because:
a)
The US was on a Gold Standard as of 1873
b)
There were grave problems behind the seeming opulence of the era
c)
It was a period of growth and intensive manual labor
d)
It resulted in only benefits for the nation
37.
Members of which group most likely to belong to Populist Party?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Farmers
c)
Industrialists
d)
Immigrants
38.
Based on your knowledge of the Second Industrial Revolution in the United States, what statement is this cartoon making?
a)
The federal government is ruining the oil industry by placing too many restrictions and regulations on business owners.
b)
The oil industry is thriving due to a healthy working relationship with the federal government.
c)
The owner of Standard Oil has too much power and influence over the federal government.
d)
Emissions from oil refineries are polluting the air and harming the environment.
39.
Both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act were passed in response to the problem of
a)
companies refusing to hire minority workers
b)
businesses choosing to hire illegal immigrants
c)
unsafe working conditions in factories
d)
business combinations limiting competition
40.
One way in which the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Gentlemen’s Agreement, and the National Origins Act were similar is that all were expressions of
a)
imperialism
b)
nativism
c)
militarism
d)
Manifest Destiny
41.
Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, and Margaret Sanger are most closely associated with efforts to...
a)
educate and train formerly enslaved persons
b)
preserve the natural environment
c)
advance the interests of organized labor
d)
improve conditions for the poor
42.
Based on your knowledge of written works in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which of the following books most likely inspired the demand made by the women pictured?
a)
The Great American Fraud by Samuel Hopkins Adams
b)
The Shame of Cities by Lincoln Steffens
c)
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
d)
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
43.
Which of following was most closely associated with the Populist Party?
a)
Jane Addams
b)
William Jennings Bryan
c)
Eugene Debs
d)
Samuel Gompers
44.
What was the main goal of most muckraking journalists?
a)
Gain fame through articles of high popular interest
b)
Expose socioeconomic problems in need of political attention
c)
Increase public awareness of America's great potential
d)
End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business
45.
What happened as a result of the completion of the transcontinental rail road?
a)
Huge numbers of people moved to the coast
b)
Increased number of buffalo on the Plains
c)
Increased migration to the West
d)
Native Americans roamed the Plains more freely
46.
In the late 19th century, labor unions developed chiefly as a result of the need for
a)
white collar workers
b)
improved working conditions
c)
workers who would work for low wages
d)
improved methods of production
47.
Who was the "captain of industry" who created the Standard Oil Trust?
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John D. Rockefeller
c)
Henry Ford
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
48.
How do monopolies harm consumers?
a)
They eliminate competition and allow for high prices
b)
They encourage competition, but increase prices
c)
They increase competition and lower prices
d)
They increase prices while increasing the quality of products
49.
What did the Railroad Strike of 1877, The Pullman Strike and the Homestead Steel Strike all have in common?
a)
They were all caused by employers cutting workers wages.
b)
Each of these strikes was won by the workers.
c)
All were led by Mother Jones.
d)
The workers in each strike were members of the Knights of Labor.
50.
What affect do monopolies have on small businesses?
a)
Increase competition with them
b)
Reduce the need for government intervention
c)
Spread wealth with the smaller business
d)
Reduce the number of small businesses
51.
Negotiating through collective bargaining and going on strike if necessary, are methods of what group?
a)
Monopolies
b)
Trusts
c)
Economies
d)
Labor Unions
52.
Who founded the American Federation of Labor?
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
c)
Eugene Debs
d)
Upton Sinclair
53.
The tactic enabled Samuel Gompers to develop AFL into largest labor union in US?
a)
Allowing women and minorities to join
b)
Signing up low-wage, unskilled immigrant laborers
c)
Lobbying Congress to pass laws limited activities of rival unions
d)
Concentrating on higher wages and better working conditions
54.
How Haymarket Square affected Knights of Labor?
a)
Massive gathering of workers forced federal government to place limits on union's activities
b)
Workers lost confidence in union's leadership after union president given details of rally to police
c)
Union members grew disillusioned as newspapers blamed workers for violence
d)
Union's emphasis on recruiting immigrants angered American-born workers
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