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Gilded Age

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does "Gilded" mean when we talk about the Gilded Age?

a)

Nice on the outside, ugly on the inside

b)

Ugly on the outside, nice on the inside

2.

The Dawes Severalty Act dealt with which group in America?

a)

Indians (Native Americans)

b)

Immigrants

c)

Chinese

d)

Settlers

3.

Political Machines took advantage of what major groups?

a)

The Immigrants and the Poor

b)

The Immigrants and Big Businesses

c)

The Poor and the Chinese

d)

The Chinese and the Big Businesses

4.

Civil Service Reform was a response to what?

a)

Political Machines and the Spoils System

b)

Chinese Immigrants

c)

Indians (Native Americans)

d)

The need to regulate State Governments

5.

Changing their names, cutting their hair, forcing them to adopt Christianity, requiring them to learn English, etc. These are all examples of what pushed on many Immigrants, but especially the Indians (Native Americans)?

a)

Assimilation

b)

Nativism

c)

Protectionism

d)

Temperance

6.

The title given to people like Carnegie who invested their money to start businesses, such as his steel monopoly.

a)

Entrepreneurs

b)

Nativists

c)

Philanthropists

d)

Populists

7.

Americans who grew angry and resentful at the increased Immigrant migration into the country, especially those from Southern and Eastern Europe

a)

Nativists

b)

Populists

c)

Philanthropists

d)

Social Workers

8.

Though jobs were plentiful, they didn't pay well. This caused what change in women and children's lives in the nineteenth century?

a)

Women and children had to become wage earners

b)

Women and children became business owners

c)

Women and children became more educated

d)

Women and children became leaders of organized labor

9.

The Homestead Act caused a shift in population to move from where to where?

a)

East Coast to West Coast

b)

West Coast to East Coast

10.

What group was motivated the most by "The American Dream" during the Gilded Age?

a)

Immigrants

b)

The Poor

c)

Indians (Native Americans)

d)

Former Slaves

11.

Overcrowding and pollution were caused primarily by what?

a)

Urbanization

b)

Industrialization

c)

Nativism

d)

Assimilation

12.

Declining wages and a rise unemployment on the west coast led to what piece of legislation?

a)

Chinese Exclusion Act

b)

Dawes Act

c)

Homestead Act

d)

Pendleton Act of 1883

13.

Roads, skyscrapers, prisons, sewers, schools, railroads, etc, are all examples of what?

a)

Infrastructure

b)

Rural Expansion

c)

Assimilation

d)

Nativism

14.

How did Political Machines use Infrastructure to gain power and manipulate Immigrants?

a)

Got them to work on those projects in exchange for votes

b)

Got them to work on those projects in exchange for money

c)

Kept them from getting those jobs

15.

What region of the US had the greatest Urban Growth during the Gilded Age? (Late 1800s)

a)

Northeast

b)

Northwest

c)

Southeast

d)

Southwest

16.

The Gilded Age saw the greatest shift in population from which area to which area?

a)

Rural areas to Urban areas

b)

Urban areas to Rural areas

17.

What Supreme Court case set the precedent for "Separate but Equal", which would last until the Civil Rights Movement of the mid 1900s?

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Brown v Board of Education

c)

Marbury v Madison

d)

Roe v Wade

18.

All of the following groups struggled for civil rights during the Gilded Age except?

a)

Mexican Americans

b)

African Americans

c)

Immigrants

d)

Women

19.

Who is most associated with political machines in New York City?

a)

"Boss" Tweed

b)

John Rockefeller

c)

Jane Adams

d)

Andrew Carnegie

20.

What was the main source of power in big city governments during the Gilded Age?

a)

Political Machines

b)

Industrial Capitalists

c)

Robber Barons

d)

Labor Leaders