WorksheetsGilded Age
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which Amendment gave all women the right to vote?
a)
14th
b)
18th
c)
19th
d)
21st
2.
What are the three MAIN reforms of the progressive movement?
a)
Drinking, women's rights, parking spaces
b)
Low wages, drinking, work hours
c)
better wages, safe working conditions, shorter hours
d)
Friends, family, food
3.
Define suffrage:
a)
Right to laugh
b)
Right to suffer
c)
Right to have safe work
d)
Right to vote
4.
What did the 17th Amendment call for?
a)
Prohibition
b)
Women's suffrage
c)
Direct election of senators
d)
1st Income tax
5.
Which president was known as a "trustbuster?
a)
Theodroe Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
Franklin Roosevelt
6.
Who was the founder of Hull House, a settlement house?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
7.
What was a Muckraker?
a)
A politician who was corrupt.
b)
A factory owner who employed child labor.
c)
An investigative journalist who exposed corruption in society.
d)
An immigrant who lived in a tenement building.
8.
What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
9.
What reason did the U.S. Supreme Court give for striking Grange laws?
a)
states cannot regulate international trade
b)
states cannot regulate freight traveling across state lines
c)
states cannot regulate freight within their borders
d)
states can only regulate manufacturing, not shipping
10.
In its FIRST attempt to prevent or break up monopolies, Congress passed a law which made it illegal for any company -- or group of companies working together -- to attempt to "restrain commerce." This was called the _________?
a)
The Dawes Act
b)
The Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Chinese Exclusion Act
d)
Pendleton Civil Service Act
11.
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
12.
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
13.
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
14.
Between 1860 and 1910, the U.S. population tripled due to:
a)
The Baby Boom
b)
Immigration
c)
The Homestead Act
d)
Better Healthcare
15.
Fact most significant in development of labor unions during nineteenth century?
a)
Working conditions
b)
Racial segregation
c)
Class discrimination
d)
Growing prosperity
16.
The political cartoon is a criticism of which practice in the 19th century?
a)
vertical integration
b)
monopolization
c)
industrialism
d)
laissez-faire capitalism
17.
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
18.
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
19.
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
20.
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
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