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NC Final Exam Review - Gilded Age

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
When was the Gilded Age?
a)
1870-1900
b)
1820-1860
c)
1900-1920
d)
1865-1877
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
What was the name of the group, caught in 1875 during the Gilded Age, that diverted whiskey tax money in bribes to high government officials including President Grant's aid Orville Babcock?  It was a conspiracy between large whiskey distillers and government officials.
a)
whiskey ring
b)
no
c)
no
d)
no
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
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
12.
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
13.
Many Immigrants faced issues once they arrived such as language barriers, but these group of people mostly restricted new immigrants from entering the country.
a)
Democrats
b)
Republicans
c)
Donald Trump
d)
Nativists
14.
This is the term for immigrants that is the process for turning and teaching immigrants about the culture and government of the United States.
a)
Americanization
b)
Nativism
c)
American
d)
MexiCAN
15.
Men such as Andrew Carnegie believed in giving money to libraries, museums and schools to help benefit people who wanted to move up in the social ladder. 
a)
geopolitical
b)
political bosses
c)
anthropolgy
d)
philanthropy
16.
During the 19th and early 20th century, These men helped immigrants with jobs and housing in order to control votes during election? 
a)
political parties
b)
El Chapo
c)
political bosses
d)
republican party
17.
Under this policy in 1887, the Government gave Native Americans land in order to farm land, just like European farmers. 
a)
Dawes Act
b)
Ghost Dance
c)
Trail of Tears
d)
Laws Act
18.
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....
a)
Philanthropy
b)
Labor Unions
c)
Political Bosses
d)
Credit Unions
19.
in 1882, the Government passed this legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.
a)
Nativist Act
b)
Mexican Reparition Act
c)
Dawes Act
d)
Chinese Exclusion Act
20.
Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman were
a)
wealthy industrialists of the late 1800s
b)
leaders of labor unions
c)
notorious industrial strikes
d)
horizontally consolidated companies
21.
believed in giving his money back under his 'Gospel of Welath" policy
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
John Rockefeller
c)
Eugene Debs
d)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
22.
Between 1860 and 1910, the U.S. population tripled due to:
a)
The Baby Boom
b)
Immigration
c)
The Homestead Act
d)
Better Healthcare
23.
Fact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century? 
a)
Working conditions
b)
Racial segregation
c)
Class discrimination
d)
Growing prosperity
24.
A person who campaigned for women’s right to vote such as: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul 
a)
suffragist
b)
temperance crusader 
c)
abolitionist 
d)
muckraker 
25.
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century? 
a)
vertical integration
b)
monopolization
c)
industrialism 
d)
laissez-faire capitalism