WorksheetsGilded Age Staar review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 1hrs 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
How nineteenth-century city bosses and their machines retained control?
a)
Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support
b)
Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
c)
Using police forces to protect organized labor
d)
Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference
2.
Use of barbed wire most associated with which outcome?
a)
Completion of Union Pacific Railroad
b)
End of open range and frontier
c)
Increased prospecting and mining activity
d)
Increased demand for and production of steel
3.
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
4.
Who were Exodusters?
a)
American Indians demanding return of tribal lands
b)
Eastern Europeans immigrating to US after WWI
c)
African Americans leaving South after Civil War
d)
Colonial Americans forming local militias during Revolution
5.
Fact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century?
a)
Working conditions
b)
Racial segregation
c)
Class discrimination
d)
Growing prosperity
6.
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
a)
vertical integration
b)
monopolization
c)
industrialism
d)
laissez-faire capitalism
7.
Based on your knowledge of the 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.
8.
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
9.
Who founded the American Federation of Labor?
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
c)
Eugene Debs
d)
Upton Sinclair
10.
Most nativists of the late 1800s would most likely have supported the
a)
continuation of the contract labor system
b)
creating of settlement houses to aid new immigrants
c)
assimilation of Native American Indians into mainstream culture
d)
passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
11.
The majority of immigrants who arrived in the United States between 1800 and 1860 came from
a)
Latin America
b)
East Asia
c)
Southern and Eastern Europe
d)
northern and western Europe
12.
The growth of big business in the late 1800s resulted in
a)
the widening of the economic gap between rich and poor
b)
a reduction in child labor
c)
the elimination of the middle class
d)
a shift in transportation investment from railroads to canals
13.
The Gilded Age described the period because:
a)
The US was on a Gold Standard as of 1873
b)
There were serious problems underneath the seeming appearance of prosperity and opportunity for all.
c)
It was a period of growth and intensive manual labor
d)
It resulted in only benefits for the nation
14.
Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low
a)
Captain of Industry
b)
Robber Baron
c)
Philanthropist
d)
Consolidator
15.
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)
Tolten
d)
Tweed
16.
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
17.
When was the Gilded Age?
a)
1870-1900
b)
1820-1860
c)
1900-1920
d)
1865-1877
18.
One of the most famous and successful railroad consolidators was _______
a)
JP Morgan
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
d)
John Rockefeller
19.
The Social Gospel movement worked to better conditions in cities according to
a)
biblical ideals of charity and justice
b)
the economic doctrine of laissez-faire
c)
practical realities of urban poverty
d)
the principles of social science
20.
"To-day three-fourths of its people live in the tenements, and the nineteenth century drift of the population to the cities is sending ever-increasing multitudes to crowd them . . . . We know now that there is no way out; that the “system” that was the evil offspring of public neglect and private greed has come to stay . . . . Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain . . . . The greed of capital that wrought the evil must itself undo it . . ."
—Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890
Why did Jacob Riis call the tenements “a bad bargain”?
—Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890
Why did Jacob Riis call the tenements “a bad bargain”?
a)
Reformers would only help people living in tenements if they agreed to change their lifestyles.
b)
Negotiations between labor unions and businesses made small strides in improving the lives of workers, but it was not enough.
c)
The lack of laws protecting workers allowed businesses to pay workers so little that the workers had to live in crowded, unsanitary conditions.
d)
People had more access to entertainment in the cities than in rural areas, but the trade-off was living in smaller and more crowded housing.
21.
What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) and the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)?
a)
To regulate some aspects of business
b)
To expand the positive features of the trusts
c)
To favor big business over small companie
d)
To move toward government ownership of key industries
22.
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
23.
This period during the 1870s to 1900 is known for it's rise of railroads, big business, industrialization and social problems in the United States.
a)
World War I
b)
Progressive Era
c)
Gilded age
d)
Roaring Twenties
24.
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
a)
vertical integration
b)
monopolization
c)
industrialism
d)
laissez-faire capitalism
25.
Which issue is this cartoon addressing?
a)
Political corruption
b)
Temperance
c)
Civil-service reform
d)
Segregation
26.
How did the invention shown in this patent illustration affect industry?
a)
Machines needed to be repaired less frequently
b)
Products could be manufactured on an assembly line.
c)
Businesses needed to hire skilled workers
d)
Factories could extend working hours.
27.
One way the U.S. government responded to the problems caused by the conditions in this list was by —
a)
passing the Interstate Commerce Act
b)
implementing the silver standard for currency
c)
creating a federal jobs program for the unemployed
d)
establishing a new tax on capital gains
28.
Photographs like this one by Jacob Riis in 1888 reflected a growing concern with--
a)
how life in America differed from that in foreign countries
b)
the use of photography to express human emotions
c)
preserving the beauty of the natural environment
d)
documenting urban conditions to promote social change
29.
Images such as this illustrate the position that many US companies were —
a)
requiring vocational training programs for children
b)
employing children as a source of cheap labor
c)
seeking government regulation of child labor
d)
providing safe working conditions for child laborers
30.
Which situation does this cartoon from an early 1900s pamphlet illustrate?
a)
The deportation of many Chinese immigrants in the Northwest.
b)
The recruitment of Chinese immigrants by large labor unions in the Midwest.
c)
The fear in the West of losing jobs to Chinese immigrants.
d)
The lack of available resources in the East to support a large influx of Chinese immigrants.
31.
Which Andrew Carnegie quotation best explains why he funded libraries like the one in this photograph?
a)
"Under the law of competition, the employer of thousands is forced into the strictest economies,...and often there is friction between the employer and the unemployed."
b)
"The price which society pays for the law of competition, like the price it pays for cheap comforts and luxuries, is...great."
c)
"The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise."
d)
"This, then, is...the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance."
32.
Which group of people most likely inspired the creation of this 1893 cartoon?
a)
Union leaders
b)
Philanthropists
c)
Political bosses
d)
Nativists
33.
Describe tenement housing.
a)
Single family homes in large cities.
b)
Apartments in small towns in the midwest.
c)
Cramped apartments in large cities that had disease & crime.
d)
Basement apartments in Chicago
34.
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
35.
The Bessemer Process
a)
Limited hours that children could work
b)
Made it cheaper to produce iron
c)
Made steel cheaper and stronger
d)
allowed the lightbulb to used across the country
36.
Which term described Carnegie and Rockefeller as people who gave millions of dollars to charity?
a)
Captains of Industry
b)
Philanthropists
c)
Robber Barons
d)
Progressives
37.
Of the following, which made it illegal to form trusts?
a)
AFL-CIO
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Roosevelt's Square Deal
d)
Pullman Workers Protection Act
38.
Who invented the phone
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Eastman
d)
Thomas Edison
39.
Who invented the lightbulb
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Eastman
d)
Thomas Edison
40.
Who invented the automated assembly line?
a)
Henry Ford
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
George Eastman
d)
Thomas Edison
41.
Political bosses and Political machines used these methods of manipulation and coercion to maintain control in municipal and locally elected public offices during the nineteenth-century .
a)
Providing aid to citizens in exchange for political support
b)
Developing alliances among diverse immigrant populations
c)
Using police forces to protect organized labor
d)
Establishing local militias to prevent outside interference
42.
What does this late nineteenth-century political cartoon by Thomas Nast satirize?
a)
the corruption of progressive reformers
b)
the
corruption of urban political machines
c)
the arrival of carpetbaggers to exploit the South
d)
the
disagreements between Republicans and Democrats
43.
What caused a rush of people to California?
a)
Immigration to Mexico
b)
Gold
c)
Silver
d)
Farmland
44.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)
Manifest destiny
b)
Monroe Doctrine
c)
Great Awakening
d)
Louisiana Purchase
45.
Why did miners, cowhands, and ranchers want to move west.
a)
They wanted an adventure
b)
They wanted to escape the busy lifestyle in the East
c)
They were interested in economic opportunity
d)
They enjoyed big city life
46.
One of the main leaders of Tammany Hall during the 1860s & 1870s was
a)
William Belknap
b)
Jay Gould
c)
Jim Fisk
d)
William Marcy Boss Tweed
47.
Gold rush that took place in the Yukon Region
a)
Silverton
b)
Sutter’s Mill
c)
Ohio Springs
d)
Klondike
48.
What is Social Darwinism?
a)
Leaders in power want to retain power
b)
Devolution of primates
c)
Survival of the fittest
d)
Eugenics
49.
This act gave Native Americans a chance at 160 acres of land for the price of Americanization.
a)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
d)
Homestead Act
50.
This act offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family (or >21 yrs old) who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it.
a)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
Dawes Act
c)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
d)
Homestead Act
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